Education is to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed and reasonable decisions. Any other consequences should be treated as merely incidental. Education is not simply learning things; it is learning to learn things.
Teachers come in many shapes, sizes, and temperaments. Their quality arises from their individual personality and thinking, the beliefs they have about teaching and learning, how they conceptualize their work, and the ways in which they interact with students. Their personal beliefs and values provide the unconscious foundation for their behavior. The metaphors they use to describe their work shape the world in which they and their students operate. Because teachers' mental models of reality are highly individualistic, no two classrooms are, or can be, the same. Therefore, education is shape and molded by educators.
Real knowledge is acquired by learning what interests you, through reading, investigation, practice, or any other desirable method. To become intelligent, you must engage in activity with the idea that is you learning because you want to, because knowledge is a goal. The path to conformity varies greatly from this. Education is power, power that has the ability to influence change…
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
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As you said in the blog that Education is power, but the education is to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to make informed and reasonable decisions. There is a problem: teaching students how to fish is more important than give them some fish. So the knowledge is important, but teaching them how to learn by themselves is more important. What the students learned at schools is not enough for them to use for the work. Plus the technology is changing every second nowadays. So I think teach the students how to learn is more important.
I agree that teachers are different from each other including the personalities and learning or teaching styles, as well as the students. Some educators should have different ways to teach different students. Yes, education is shape and molded by educators, but also students themselves have reflection to the educators. I mean students should be centered in the whole process of education.
Leonardo:-)
Although you are still learning about computer concepts (aren't we all) you seem to be doing fine. The creative and humanistic answer to the weekly reflection - shows your muscial side. I would just like to add that although we bring with us our individual differences to our classrooms, we still have to stay up-to-date with technology. This sometimes is hard for older teachers.
Leonardo,
I agree with your assessment that education is molded by educators (for better or worse). I know personally, many teachers helped shape who I am today. I like to think that I took a little from each of my teachers and incorporated their styles into my own. I believe that different teaching styles are benefitial to students. Not every student has the same learning style so some teachers are able to reach students that other teachers may not be able to. You are right, education is power, and the power to learn stays with an individual for life.
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