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Why You Need a Philosophy of Education
Nasos Papadopoulos
The Importance of
Having a Philosophy of
Education
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When we combine this view of knowledge with the
views that educational institutions should be run
George
by specialists who maintain control (as in
Spencer on
businesses), that competition always accelerates Building
learning, and that there is always a right answer to Business
everything, we get the one size fits all approach to Skills,
education that was formulated in the period after Disrupting
the industrial revolution.
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Now this system certainly helped to reduce the
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abusiveness of child labour and bring opportunity Market and
to more people than ever before to help them find Dispelling
work and progress in society. Media
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But at what cost were these results achieved? And Tech
is finding work and earning a larger income an
indicator of a better quality of life? These are
important questions, but I’ll leave them aside for ML83: How
the purpose of finishing this article. To Learn
through
Whatever your opinion on the mechanistic Play
worldview of education and the industrial model it
has produced, one thing is certain – it has outlived
its usefulness.
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My Philosophy of
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2) Encourage independent
thinking and self sufficiency
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