Out of the authors that I have read this year, Alfred North Whitehead and John Dewey are the two that I have found the greatest commonality with in the subject of obtaining and gaining information. Whitehead speaks on education relating back to Life. It seems to be the only way to become a person that can understand the world around him/her is to be a person who learned using life as the main force in education. "There is a proverb about the difficulty of seeing the wood because of the tress...The problem of education is to make the pupil see the wood by means of the trees." I think that he and I touch base with the idea of life being the driving force in education. Whitehead conti

Whitehead expresses the danger of the implantation of inert ideas. Dewey wrote that "...ideas are anticipations of possible solutions...and tested by the operation of acting upon them." Dewey was concerned with the school problems that are assigned to students becoming empty pointless problems that importance ends with the beginning of the pupil as a human. An idea that came to mind was to have a basic break down as far as the needed subject matter that has to be covered yet letting the pupil's go out and find it in their lives as human beings. Dewey would describe this as an unscholastic approach. A problem that can lie here, is insufficient material being covered or students not fulfilling their part. Another potential problem would lie in the size of the class. A larger class size would have the great possibility of some student's ideas being left uncovered. I considered how that might have a worse e

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