Educational Philosophies

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Educational Philosophies

• Ideal Aims of education
• Plato (c.428-328 B.C.)
• Rousseau (1712-1788)
• Dewey (1859-1952)

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Plato

• Education aims at producing a just state
• What is justice?
• Socrates justice requires balance and harmony
  between different groups
• Groups rulers, soldier, those who gave service
  to citizenry
• Well-ordered and well-balanced society through
  the education of its members for the roles needed
  for such a society to function smoothly.

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Rousseau

• Education should be a place where one learns from
  experience and not from books, from nature and
  not from adults.
• The young child should develop freely and
  naturally. (natural consequences)
• Unique worth of the individual and the need for
  freedom in education to achieve individuality and
  personhood.

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Dewey

• Believed that schools could serve both aims
• Democracy is a way of life not just a form of
  government
• Embryonic social community
• Students were encouraged to cooperate, work
  together, and learn from each other while
  learning their lessons.
• Learn by doing, learn through experience