What Education Ought to Provide Young People
What goes into a philosophy of education? — Your #1 Newsletter for Accelerated Learning
“Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret; that secrets can only be known in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.” –Ivan Illich
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There are practically as many philosophies of education as there are schools in the United States. There are the Prusso-American schools of Horace Mann’s age, the public schools of the No Child Left Behind era, and the parochial schools of various denominations. There are different types of military, boarding, and prep schools. There are Montessori, Waldorf, and Classical schools, and there are even major differences in the philosophy of education for styles of homeschooling.
What, then, goes into a philosophy of education? What are the values and motivating thoughts behind questions like, “how are pupils to be educated?”, “to what ends are they educated?”, “who even are the pupils in this case?”, “how is the school to be governed?” and others?
I argue that education ought to provide young people with these two foundations for living well:
- Practical understanding of problem-solving
- Freedom to craft individual meaning from the world
One of these requires the acceptance of ignorance over the world, while the other requires the acceptance of ownership.
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