A Personal Philosophy of Education

 
 
 
 
An idealist philosophy of education would call for a highly proactive approach to ensuring that all students receive the same high quality of education and variety of educational opportunities; a realist philosophy would argue that achieving true "equality" may be impossible, but that what is needed is a nationwide effort to reform educational systems and processes to maximize student achievement to the degree possible. Idealism, from a philosophical perspective, is at times vulnerable to charges of utopianism; realism, in contrast, seeks to maximize benefits within an understanding of the possible and the improbable (Solomon and Higgins, 1996). As an educator with classroom experience, I would argue in favor or an idealistic philosophy of education tempered by recognition of the effects of "real world" variables, influences, factors, and limitations.

Specifically, my philosophy of education rests on a rejection of what Robert Evans (1996) has called the excessive assertiveness of the rhetoric of school improvement. All too often, schools rush to institute reforms or adopt new and seemin


     
 
 
 
    

 

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