Philosophy of Education

Kaylin O’Wade
Found’ns of Ed.
Oct.5.2018
Philosophy of Education
When I think education and its purpose, I think its teachers helping to teach new skills to
students and to enhance knowledge and skills that students already have. Education helps
students gets ready for life and help prepare them. The skills the teachers would teach is all
over the board from teaching math and science to art and home ec. Education itself should be
well rounded. Sometimes I think some schools forget about classes like cooking and woodshop
and think it’s just all about classes like math. I’m not saying that math isn’t important, I’m
saying that’s just not the only important class there is. Education is more than that. That’s why I
think education needs to go and explore more into home et and classes on those lines. Like I
said, education is to prepare students for life, so they need smarts like math, but they also need
everyday skills like cooking and knowing how to work with money.
To teach these skills and knowledge, we need schools. Schools are for helping to teach
students and become a place that’s like a second home to all students. It also lets students get
to socialize with each other, thus gaining social skills. This is where all teachers, staff, and
students meet for all classes. The reason I feel we have an actual place to go to is to learn better
and break all the students up by grade level or put them where they need to be. Having schools
is also good in order to have students not miss out on what they need to learn and may miss it
if there were no schools. By having students socializing, getting out of the house, and learning
new knowledge, what makes us have schools.
The curriculum should contain the basic learning, like math and English, but also
have the different classes I said before like with home ec. In the elementary part of the
curriculum should just be like math, spelling, and reading. In middle school it should keep those
classes but start adding the home ec. and a study skills class. Then in high school have all the
pervious classes (except spelling) and have even more classes to offer, maybe like life skills,
psychology, and economics. The higher the grade, the more classes there should be. The
curriculum should let the learning be fun to make it be more enjoyable for the students. It
should also let them express themselves especially in the higher grades.
Now the teachers. They should of course teach the students the material and not
let anyone fall behind or try to do their best to not let that happen, but there should also be a
mentor and/or a role model for their students. All students and people in general look up to
someone, whether that someone knows it or not, so a teacher should always be on their best
behavior. A teacher also needs to be kind, no matter how ‘annoying’ a student is. They need to
be engaged in the learning themselves, if the teacher doesn’t care about the work, then that
just influences the students to not care either. Then lastly a teacher needs to be similar to a
counselor. Some students may just need someone to give them a smile or a nice comment or
they may need to talk to someone and most will feel comfortable with a teacher.
The students learn best when they can understand the topic fully and nothing is
getting in their way. Things that can stop a student from learning can be a lot of different
reasons, some can be the way the material is being taught, they may not learn that way,
something going on in school or at home that makes them nervous, or simply just not wanting
to do the work. The best way to help the students learn is to make the school and classroom
into a nice safe place where students feel like they can relax and want to learn. All students are
different so no matter the approach, there’s always going to be at least one who doesn’t’ learn
the way everyone does. So then in that case the teacher can see what they can do to help that
student. Overall though students learn when they feel relaxed and the teacher makes the
learning into a positive experience and in a way the students can understand the lessons.
I identify with postmodernism because I think most like that. I don’t really identify with
any of the other philosophies too much and postmodernism is the closest I can relate to with
on point. Earlier in this paper I mentioned about teachers needing to be engaged in their work
in order to get the students to be engaged. Postmodernism says that the teacher must
empower themselves in order for the students to be empowered.

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Kaylin O’Wade

new knowledge, what makes us have schools.

empower themselves in order for the students to be empowered.

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