Stanley Fish: Save the World on Your Own

The basic purpose of college is education. The author refers to Thomas Jefferson’s “The basis of our government is the opinion of the people.” to emphasize how educated citizenry affects the government, and then indicates the importance of the college. For using the importance of critical thinking to argue his thesis, he states the current situation of the general people, who are exposed with “pleadings and persuasions” every day and need to “tell the difference between demagoguery and responsible arguments.” (Delbanco 507) As a person living in the current world, it is really deceptive to tell true or false. Therefore, the ability of critical thinking is so important to master and then college still matters as it can train people critically thinking. Then, for the free thinking, he mentions the book Education’s End of Kronman, the former Yale dean, which includes, “the ideals of individual freedom and toleration,” “a reliance on markets as a mechanism for the organization of economic life,” and “an acceptance of the truths of modern science.” The author uses good “ethos” of other person with authoritative support to demonstrate the significance of free thinking. As our world is multicultural and everyone is unique, every certain person should accept others’ culture and concepts with free thinking. For the last part, endless thinking, how does the author take advantages of this? “One of the marks of an educated person is the recognition that it can never be adequately done and is therefore all the more worth doing.” (Delbanco 508) As a student in the college, I am convinced in this point. An educated person will be never fulfill with the knowledge he gets so far, so we have educated since the youth, how can we stop learning and vanish one of our nature – curiosity, which

Malcolm X once said “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”. From adolescence to adulthood almost every person is put through schooling. As one gets older in age, the education they obtain becomes more rigorous in order to stretch their minds far beyond two plus two or what color the sky is. The strategies of critically thinking and being able to analyze/decipher information in front is them is reinforced routinely in the educational system. With this being said, the purpose of education is to aid in enhancing one’s qualification, socialisation, and subjectification skills within the society regardless of how or where one’s education was obtained.

Educational goals are seen to be an area of great concern in the era of globalization. Universities will continually play a immense role increasing a better society. (S. Chinnammai, 2005)

“It is not the job of a university to be a harbor for social or political change, considering that requires taking a hard stance on what constitutes good social or political change in the first place. It is a university's job first and foremost to educate, to expand student's pool of knowledge, and to provide an environment which makes it's students strong and prepared to take on the world with all their intellectual capacity.”

For instance, we tend to think that every problem is about us. Furthermore, we are taught how to think, yet it is in our power to choose how and what to think. However, most of us operate believing that there isn’t anything we can do to change this mindset. Real education is learning how to be aware and alert of our thoughts. To him, universities do not seem to do anything to teach or prepare students for their real job in life.

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”

One of the main responsibilities that education must achieve in a democratic society argues that it is the proper preparation of students for the roles of successful citizens and responsibilities they must be ready to take on when they are ready to take on the world. We do not add together individuals and call it a society. We as teachers, teach children so they can be a part of today’s society. People’s lives are woven together and we share a common life and goals.

There are several different concepts surrounding the topic of education but most problematic is in regards to the aims of education within society. With several aims proposed by educational philosophers there is confusion surrounding what education is for and which type of education best suits the individual. Lewis (2015) posed that education promotes student learning and potential as well as fostering of community and self esteem within a school environment. Overall education is the defining product of good citizens in contemporary society, with diverse cultures, social norms and political standpoints. Liberal, vocational and wellbeing education will be discussed throughout arguing that a combined approach to education is most relevant within modern society. The ethical obligations for teachers within education will also be discussed.

European philosophers ideas have had huge impacts on governments around the world for many years. However their ideas have also had less recognizable effects on people’s everyday lives, including high school. Many of the famous political ideals of many famous philosophers are found in the rules and functions of the school. Hobbes’s social contract, Marx’s ideas of economic equality, Hume and Diderot’s ideas on secular institutions and Montesquieu’s political philosophies are all reflected in some way in the system of Grand Haven High School.

Throughout this paper, I will be comparing this approach to a number of more traditional approaches to educational policy analysis such as the rational comprehensive model, politically rational model (Bacchi, 1999), Critical Discourse Analysis (Thomas, 2004) and the effects of globalization through common world education culture and the globally structured agenda for education (Dale, 2000). Examining the strengths and weakness of these approaches as compared to the less traditional “what’s the problem?” approach, can help gain a clearer understanding of educational policy and therefore help us to be (hopefully) informed members of the policy making and implementation process.

Technically education consists of well-defined segments preliminary starting from formal/ professional education and in an ideal world it never ends. As Sydney J. Harris American journalist Quotes “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows”. Education brings about the change in physical, mental and social development of an individual develops insight and beliefs about the purpose of education, conveys strength to one's sentiments, and widens the perceptions and leading to a healthier attitude of viewing at realism. In the words of Bill Beattie, one of the famous authors and writers “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.” Education is answerable for the enhancement of a cultured civilization and makes individuals of society self-sufficient. One of the views about education is that education supports at creating good teachers. Today is the world where we are passing through a great changeover. The old ways of teaching learning process is found to be obsolete. A superior prospect of psychological belief is being truly required. In the above statement prospective it is important to have ethical standards setup for education in order to channelize the best possible knowledge to the students,

In the field of education there could arise many philosophical ideas of each individual teacher. Many of the past philosophies have been and still are used in today’s education programs, such as the Socratic method. My philosophy will also contain some of the many philosophies of the past and possibly the future. I will state the nature of students, the nature of knowledge, the purpose of public education, method, and curriculum according to my own philosophies, which also may be based the philosophical ideas of previous individuals.

When understanding education there are many different ways which the purpose of education may be applied and defined. My personal philosophy of education is, 'educators must nurture/guide students within the academic field, to that the aims, goals and results during this task of educating or being educated are achieved '. This philosophy is used to understand that both teachers and students play an integral role in education. Academic performance, classroom methods/practices and also meeting the requirements of both the senior secondary Australian Curriculum Framework and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Framework are examples of these roles. This essay will discuss in detail how my personal philosophy of education, reflects on the role of teachers and learners, the aim of education and the methods and practices used in the classroom. Jean Jacques Rousseau, Paulo Freire, Locke, and Plato/Socrates are the four theorists that shall be used within this essay, to support claims and justify statements regarding this philosophy. John Dewey and A.S Neil are two non-supporting theorists that shall be used in contrast to justify this philosophy.

Through the long history,educators,thinkers,politicians and scholars have answered the question of what education is in different ways: some see it from the perspective of educational value,some see it from the perspective of educational purposes,some see it from the perspective of educational content and methods,and some see it from the