Idealism in Education

Our ideas, ethics, and perceptions of what is important mold our values. “Values come about through a combination of experiences and learning: exposure to situations and information, and interpretation of those experiences. Interaction and socialization, which help to form common values, also play important roles.” (Hollinger, 2010). Personally, my values dramatically changed after my complete surrender to Jesus Christ. This transformation established my values on the firm Christian foundation. “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” (I Corinthians 3:11). Let’s explore my fundamental

The values are the principles or standards which could include rules of conduct, respect, honesty, kindness, sharing and appreciation.

Idealism and truth are both significant elements of a person’s life, although idealism can often make it difficult to see what is actually true. In The Novice, the protagonist gets caught up in idealism by glamorizing his boat the Sally Anne, which skews his perception of the truth. Readers of W.D. Valgardson’s The Novice should understand that individuals often idealize their material possessions, and that such behavior is often caused by isolation, which is likely to result in consequences such as the inability to face the truth.

development. Idealists strive to discover who they are and how they can become their best

Values are intangible things that are important to us, and that guide us, individually, to make decisions. Each person has a different set of values, morals, and ethics, which is the reason that each person handles a situation differently. Here, I will discuss my top 5 values, and why they are important to me.

Education, the staple of every society and the hallmark of every first world country, it is a privilege granted to all equally within the United States. There may be variances in the actual level of education and even the amount of students who take advantage of the public school opportunity; still it is a general entitlement that this country provides to all. Within the promise of education, there is an implied right to the safety of the student and the faculty. These provided polls, taken from the Gallop Polling Agency, study this implied right of safety within reference to the concern of the parents for their children’s well being while at school and also that of the children for their own well being. Using these polls, I will discuss my interpretation of their results, the conclusions that I have come to due to my interpretation, and a few of the strengths and weaknesses that I’ve noticed through my examination of these polls.

Plato believed in a heavenly realm in which perfection, or the Ideal, exists separately from the realm in which we live (Fernandez 2010). In the words of Ernesto Fernandez, “Plato also explains human existence in these terms, humans are Good beings “fallen” from “the heavens” and trapped in the lowest, most imperfect level of the Universe, which is the world all of us live in. Plato believed that when a human being learns something they

Values are used to describe what you are most interested in and find to be appropriate, my top five values are: achievements, honesty, respect, loved, and family. To make achieve something can be a good thing, as in it can get you a step closer to where you want to get in life. Honesty fits into having achievements, to be honest, helping you out in a situation in which it would lead you in major achievements. I feel like to be honest with someone it gets you some leading advantage because you will get

The values that resonate with me the most are respect, honesty, equality, responsibility and trustworthiness.

Idealist- denotation- a person who is guided more by ideals than by practical considerations- connotation- someone following a “perfect person”

They comprise of no more than fifteen to twenty percent of the population. Idealists are enthusiastic, yearn for romance, and dream of attaining wisdom. They are passionately concerned with personal growth and development. The quest for self-knowledge and self-improvement drives their imagination. Their quest makes them want to help others make that journey. Leading them to jobs working with people. Idealists believe that friendly cooperation is the best way. They tend to become upset when faced with conflict and confrontation. They dream of creating harmonious personal relationships. Idealists are incurable romantics, who prefer what might be instead of what is. Idealists hold themselves to a strict standard of personal integrity and suffer greatly when they are

As Believers, we embrace values, because God places inestimable value on the human soul. He paid the redemption price of the blood of his son Jesus Christ to purchase his own people who are precious to him. Everything that achieves or maintains this relationship is to be

“enhancing self-awareness, recognizing values of ‘congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding’, self-responsibility, understanding one’s feelings, awareness of one’s own perspective, being open to experience, being rational, living a fuller life, positive life-direction, acceptance of one’s and other’s uniqueness, prizing one and others, and living a moral and ethical life” (pg. 343).

In Republic, Plato shows through the education of the Guardians that education within his ideal society must focus on training students to the path that has been chosen for them and prioritize the greater good over advancement of individuals by allowing censorship of unideal ideas and traits. This regulated education focuses on bringing out the strongest desirable trait within an individual in order to place them into predestined positions in society based on their nature, or soul, and seeks to benefit society as a whole before benefitting individual people.

The realist philosophy views the learner as a sense mechanism, a cog in the education machine (Ozmon, 2012). The teachers serve as a demonstrator, an authoritative guide, who serves as the expert of the applicable subject matter (Ozmon, 2012). The teacher would share their knowledge of reality to their students as it relates to the physical world and their reality (Ozmon, 2012). The realist curriculum is the subject matter of the external world and the realist teaching method as mastering hard facts and organized systematic information (Ozmon, 2012). According to the realist philosophy students are taught factual information for mastery in order to survive in the material world (Ozmon, 2012). The realist philosophy aligns with the purpose of any academic advising program as both the purpose of education for both realists and academic adviser is to teach knowledge that will provide students with the skills necessary to achieve a secure life (Ozmon, 2012). Realist education theory and the academic advising philosophy promote the meaningful development of academic plans that align with the student’s life goals (Ozmon, 2012). This paper will discuss the realist education theory as it relates to the purpose of an academic advising program in higher education by analyzing the aims of education, curriculum, role of the teacher, and teaching methods in the realism education model and academic advising model.