eduactional philosophy
My educational background, along with my cultural, educational, and life experiences have helped to form and modify my educational philosophy. This philosophy, although it remains in flux, is what I have attempted to describe in this paper. ... After reading about, considering, and analyzing my educational philosophy, I came to a conclusion that I had already anticipated; that is, that my educational philosophy is very eclectic. Although my educational philosophy tends to follow both progressivism and existentialism orientation the strongest, there are still attributes within reconstructionism, and to a lesser extent perennialism, and essentialism that I believe are important. The progressivist beliefs that education should be child-centered and active rather than passive are two main attributes of my educational philosophy. ... Individual choice is an important part of my philosophy, but unlike in existentialism, I also feel rational theories are as important. ... I have quite a few problems with most of the essentilist philosophy, but I do believe that "the basics", when we are referring to reading, writing and arithmetic, are a very important basis for learning.