Pedagogy In Walt Whitman

When someone first hears the word, pedagogy, what do they think of? A toddler trying to say that he has a pet dog? Maybe it’s a modern day rapper’s name? Or even a generic brand of Grape Nuts? In reality a pedagogy is a teaching, instructing, or prompting of children to do a certain action to better their lives. When many people hear this, they first person they think of is Walt Whitman, and for a good reason. Many of Whitman's Writings have pedagogic ideas in them, The “Destroy the Teacher” passage

Walt Whitman is one of the greatest American poets to have walked this planet we call Earth. There are several things that make him so special, and one of them is his pedagogy. To really understand Whitman's pedagogy, it is critical to understand and define a pedagogy. This article describes a pedagogy perfectly, “Pedagogy, study of teaching methods, including the aims of education and the ways in which such goals may be achieved”(Peel). Now that pedagogy has been defined; Whitman’s pedagogy is that

One American poets, by the name of Walt Whitman, is very unconventional about his idea of education. Being once a teacher himself, Whitman developed his own belief of the education system, in other words he developed his pedagogy. Poems like, Song of Myself and When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer compile examples of Walt Whitman's pedagogy of experiencing, challenging, and innovating education. When I Heard The Learn'd Astronomer, supports Walt Whitman's pedagogy, of learning through experience

(A critic of Walt Whitman’s Pedagogy) Famous writer, C.S. Lewis, one wrote, “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts”. He wrote this in 1943 in The Abolition of Man, this work depicts Lewis’s objections and defence of the pedagogy of the time. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines Pedagogy as “the art, science, or profession of teaching”(Merriam-Webster Dictionary). In his quote, Lewis makes the point that teachers aren’t meant to destroy the thoughts

that we are able to teach ourselves what others are not capable of teaching us. Is the need of a teacher true, or is it just another challenge that society has set up for us to overcome? In a passage that many like to call, “Destroy the Teacher”, Whitman quotes, “He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.” Perhaps, in some ways, it is better to destroy the teacher and to begin learning by ourselves and experiencing everything for ourselves, after all, experiences are better

Influential Factors of the Audience’s Understanding Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American drama film that tells the story of an English teacher, Mr. Keating, who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. The film received critical acclaim, and was a box office success. It won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and César Award and David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film (British Board of Film Classification, 2014). However, people still hold different opinions on it. Viewers have