- What do you think is the fundamental purpose in education?
- To cause learning to occur in some way or another.
2. What do you think is the fundamental purpose in schooling?
- To provide a place or environment for teaching and learning to occur.
3. What, if any, are the differences between education and schooling?
- An education can be experienced anywhere. Schooling is refering to a specific place where education is administered
4. What do you think is the fundamental purpose in teaching?
- To enable students to utilize their comprehensive capabilities and nurture this by giving them information and tools needed to learn a certain subject.
5. What do you think is the fundamental purpose in learning?
- Acquiring knowledge and increasing one's intellectual ability in order to contribute to society.
Interesting.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely agree that an education can be experienced anywhere.
ReplyDelete(Makes me think of the phrase "live and learn....," uttered when an unexpected and unpleasant educational experiece has come our way.)
Hi, Seth,
ReplyDeleteI love that you applied the questions posed in class to your blog in such a direct manner. It is great though we disagree on several points.
While I believe that the fundamental purpose in learning has to do with acquiring knowledge and increasing intellectual ability, I think it is much more a process of absorbing the information, pulling it inside one's head and absorbing/integrating it into one's actions including the thoughts that may/may not precede the actions. As for contributing to society, well, that's a sorta kinda and I would love to hold that conversation with you face to face (who understood that blogs could create one-dimensional processes when they were thought of?) so that we could discover together some of the underlying goals of what school is for. I do not have the answers, but I do respect the process (and, I like it!)
What do you mean by "contribute to society"? How is this informed by your beliefs on what is good and right? I would argue that learning is always taking place. What kind of learning should take place in the classroom?
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