Teaching Philosophy Statement Essay

His aim was to use this method of doubting everything you know to discover what we actually do know for certain. So we can prove them.

Knowledge is a powerful tool, one which will unlock many doors for us as individuals and as the whole of the human race, but we must always remember the consequences of gaining knowledge. It is both our blessing and our curse, and we must never forget that knowledge is a power, what we do with that power will determine our fate and

It is not enough to be content with what I have already known. In order to reach my maximum potential, I attempt to deepen my understanding of the world. Sometimes it can be overwhelming with all the knowledge there is in the world, so I ask myself the question “What knowledge will help me move ahead?”

I was once asked many years ago who and what do I wanted to be. I told my parents that I wanted to be a doctor, I told my high school counselor that I wanted to be a lawyer, and I told a teacher that I wanted to teach. However, what I learned in these 10 years is that sometimes life throws at you random stuff, and you’ve got to learn how to adapt to these changes.

It took me some time to figure out what I wanted from life. As a person with a disability, there are many limits the world puts on someone like me. However, I do not put those limits on myself and try to push myself to the limits physically and mentally through activities such as contemporary dance, swimming, gymnastics, etc. This is one reason I want to major in Psychology. It has always been an interest for me due to circumstances in my life.

All throughout my life I’ve always been at a lost with what I wanted to do. I would see something and become inspired, but moments later my dreams would be crumbled. As a child I’ve always had my fazes, once it was a nurse because all my aunts are in the medical field and I thought it would be interesting as well. Then it was as a criminal investigator, FBI or CIA agent due to my habit of watching criminal shows (aka Law and Order SUV, Criminal minds, and etc.). Finally, I hit a standstill with becoming a Criminal Justice Lawyer, but even then I wasn’t inspired anymore for it was just the easy way out of this indecisiveness. As a year went by everyone asked the horrid question I had been avoiding “what do you want to do in your life” and I

Over the years I have thought of many different careers and majors that I believed I should do. Most of the time they were based on what I saw other people, who I looked up to doing. My cousin Courtney was a lifeguard, so I wanted to be a lifeguard, my mom was a nurse, so I wanted to work in the medical field. Then I would be watching sporting events with my dad, and I wanted to be a sports journalist/reporter. It wasn’t until high school that I really started to look at what I liked to do and what I was good at.

“The Allegory of the Cave” is a parable designed by Plato to illustrate the power of philosophy to free and enlighten men. This story unfolds Plato's notions about the structure of the world and “the essence of truth”. In this allegory, abstract thinking is portrayed as the key element which holds access to real truth. Building upon the teachings of his mentor, Socrates, The Allegory of the Cave represents Plato's own reflections on the limits of human knowledge (epistemology), as well as on the real nature of things (metaphysics). “Deep within the cave is where many people exist, bound by the strictures society has placed on their knowledge, virtue, and sense of the universe around them.

I believe that you don’t know what you really want until you experience it yourself. It had been a childhood dream of mine to be like Jacques Cousteau and explore the world making extraordinary discoveries. For a while the career I was most interested in was a marine biologist. I thought that this was the best way for me to be like the Cousteaus. As I grew older I started to realize that I don’t like science, especially biology. Not long after this I had an opportunity to try scuba diving. At first I was skeptical and didn’t know if I wanted to try it but I decided to give it a try. I ended up liking it a lot. Afterwards my dad was jokingly asking if I wanted to be like our instructor and be a scuba diver and I said, “actually yes, I do.”

Growing up, I never really knew what I wanted to be. It always involved helping others but I never quite knew exactly what that was. I gravitated towards the medical field as I became older and I knew that was the field for me, but did not know what specifically in it was a possibility was for me.

Making a decision on the right career for myself was difficult. What am I passionate about? How can I do what I love while making a great amount of money? Questions like that constantly traveled through my mind. I never spent much time focusing on what I would do after college.

“ The best career advice given to the young is: Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it” was said by Katherine Whitehorn. As a child in elementary school I was expected to know what I wanted to be. But as a people pleaser I “choose” to go with the career I knew my parents would approve of and wanted from me. A lawyer. At the time I thought it was what I wanted as well because I loved to prove people wrong and to argue.

The word “philosophy” is derived from two ancient Greek words, “philos” meaning ‘love of’ and “sophia” meaning ‘wisdom’. Philosophers are lovers of wisdom. They have had the time and resources to sit back and wonder about what things really are like when all the pieces are fitted into one final accounting.

Philosophy started when human beings started to ask questions, about how and what things are actually, due to curiosity. The things that caused these questions to come about were the people started to realize that everything isn’t exactly what it appears to be.

ABSTRACT: Teaching philosophy and critical thinking is one of the main ways to clearly reaffirm the value of human persons and of goodness and freedom. It is not sufficient to propose a philosophical message, but we must teach it systematically (curriculum) with a real synergy between teachers and parents. We must also build a curriculum, which includes an evaluation model based on clear goals and objectives: the intermediate and final evaluation and assessment will enable us to be sure that we have reached our aim. It is also necessary to verify every step, evaluate it and compare it to the criteria (general project, goals, objectives) we put in our mind and use in our teaching. This critical evaluation needs methods and some teaching