the missing philosophy i our public school

 

John Dewey is the father of this philosophy who Came up with the pragmatic and Experimental philosophy, and he believed in the democracy in education and that students need to learn practical daily live skills in order to build better society, students should learn different concepts, they have to test the ideas, and knowing it using the scientific problem solving by using scientific method (observation. Taking notes, extra...) for example based on incur based learning concept ,instead of giving my students all the information about a certain lesson ,I ask them to go and prepare it and write down the causes ,effects, and results, and to write down their opinion .and to find solution at the end.

This philosophy is missing in the public school that I know, the school do not take in consideration the child centered approaches, whish as we know is respect the child perspective and that said that teaching starts from the child needs and interested, and work with the child as an explorer make himself feel free to discover how to receive the information from the teacher.

Unfortunately, some teachers consider the answer is wrong if the student use a different way of solving a certain exercise of math, and didn’t care even if it have the correct, it’s a live example of how teacher and school deals with the students, do not care about experience or let them try new method in learning, they deal with students as recorders, not learners  .

So the pragmatism in my opinion it’s one of the important philosophy that is missing in our schools,