SYMPOSIUM OF THOUGHT

  PRAGMATISM Pragmatism philosophy of Education emphasizes; the reality of change, the essentiality and biological nature of human beings, the relativity of values, and the use of critical intelligence. Pragmatism in its own sense refers to solving problems in a way that suits the present conditions rather than obeying fixed theories, ideas, or rules. Therefore pragmatic philosophy of education focuses on a problem-solving approach given the environment. Pragmatists reject metaphysics as a legitimate form of philosophical inquiry. According to them, reality is determined by an individual’s sense experience and so no human being can know anything beyond their experience. No one can determine the ultimate reality of the universe of human beings like life after death. That can only be answered by guesswork. They maintain that the world is neither dependent on/nor independent of people’s idea of it. Reality amounts to the interaction of the human being with the environment. Reali...

  “If a goal is meaningfully, directly, and continually visible, your chances of achieving it increase.” Charles R. Hobbs. A priority is a valued goal that normally requires one to work on it before others. It has two most important realms: urgency and vitality. Urgency motivates most people to move a project or an event. Urgency means "getting into doing something immediately." It does not matter whether the project is vital or trivial, if it is urgent, it gets done. Whether essential or trivial, if it has no urgency, the tendency is to put it off, to wait. Most teachers and school managers have a lot of trivial urgent things to do. Urgency is the biggest enemy of time management in a school. You enter a school and everyone is rushing to do something which according to them is urgent and end up missing the most vital things. Urgency is in most cases attached to trivial things. The dictionary defines vital as something of great necessity and essential. Check your rout...

  There are so many attitudes towards life. As it is said the answers are one thousand and one and even if we narrowed our focus to only education we would still get many different answers. Different philosophers have interpreted or reacted to educational issues differently. These interpretations will be referred to as philosophies of Education. Each philosophy is linked to metaphysics, epistemology, and axiology. The following are some philosophies of Education; Idealism Idealism is the kind of philosophy traced to Plato according to Western civilization. The idealistic philosophers agree that; a) the human spirit is the most important element in life and b) the universe is essentially nonmaterial in its unanimated nature. The idealists claim that the ultimate reality is a spirit in nature rather than the physical. The universe is viewed as essentially nonmaterial in its ultimate nature. The idealists do not deny the existence of the physical houses, hills stars, and so on (as...

A philosopher is concerned with all aspects of life. Philosophy attempts to evaluate the total sum of human experience. Some human experiences are political, economic, scientific, or educational in nature. For a philosopher, nothing is exempt from philosophical scrutiny. Philosopher analyzes discoveries made or knowledge developed in all subjects to get their relevance to human life. Philosophy of Education analyses interprets and applies findings from all other disciplines to the field of Education. That is the content developed by other subject specialists must be philosophically scrutinized before it is included in the school curriculum. For example, one has to first scrutinize and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of teaching modern family planning methods to schools. Besides scrutinizing the curriculum content philosophical principles are also applied in Education to analyze policies, aims and objectives, methodology, assessment methods, and so on. Philosophy of Educati...