what is the importance of philosophy to education?

Question

what is the relationship between philosophy and education?

Answer 1

There's more than one.

Philosophy is about thinking deeply about something. So, thinking deeply about education, what's it's for, what makes an education a good education (and a good educational system a good educational system) are prerequisites to developing and assessing educational systems and methods.

Also, those being educated need to learn to think deeply about what they learn, and to explore the big questions, and see how all of the parts they learn fit together to help explain the world.

Philosophy includes reasoning about reason, and improving one's reasoning (to make it clear, relevant, broad, deep, accurate, and consistent).

Philosophy also includes reasoning about what is right and wrong and how we can tell; reasoning about what knowledge is and how we know what we know and whether we really know this or that thing.

Thus, the topics of philosophy: reason, ethics, epistemology should be taught so all students learn to think deeply and relevantly about them, and use their understanding to inform all of their beliefs and actions.

Answer 2

If you are going to specialize in anything you should really have your own cognitive thought about why it is important and how it should be done--otherwise it's an unexamined role you put yourself into and you flail about trying to figure out the what and the whys. To discern this, you need to know what "expert" thinkers also think.

So if you are in the medical field you should consider what your role is with patients and why you practice the way you do. As a business person you need to understand what kind of company you want to allign yourself with--teams, authoritative, whatever it is. Studying the philosophy behind these and developing your own makes you a stronger practitioner. You have focus.

That being said "philosophy" is even important to the young because they are livers pondering life. It can easily fall into a younger life through studies in social studies and language arts. Learning about movements of thought--like free will vs determinism explains why people might break away with the belief in monarchies. Understanding existential though is very appealing to adolescents and young adults because they begin to develop their own meaning in a meaningless world--or determine life has meaning.

Answer 3

First of all you have to be educated to even understand philosophy, and not to perceive it as stupidity. Or at least have some life experience. You can't teach philosophy to human beings until they have the ability to work with abstract notions. To put it simple: if mathematics is considered the gymnastics for the brain, then my guess is that philosophy would be the ballet.

Answer 4

Philosophy IS education. A doctorate is a degree in which a person has some knowledge of the DOCTRINE of the field in which the doctorate is taken. This means they have an understanding of the underlying philosophy of that field of knowledge.

Answer 5

Most introductory philosophy courses teach the basics of critical thinking. Thus students learn how to classify and logically analyze arguments; in addition, students learn how to assess an arguments' merits or lack thereof. I believe critical thinking is of paramount importance and has applications in a multitude of fields (from the sciences to the humanities). Furthermore, an informed citizenry is a boon to democracy. Critical thinkers will be far less likely to succumb to propaganda appeals or accept fallacious reasoning. I believe every Canadian high school graduate should be required to complete an introductory unit on critical thinking (or Philosophy 101).

Answer 6

Philosophy developes abstract thought. An education allows the evaluation of the possibilities of abstract thought leading to all advancement.

Answer 7

Philosophy is to discover what is true. Education is learning all aspects of life, understand the totality of knowledge and go beyond to understand what is true. Both are geared to eliminate all false knowledge to arrive to what is true.

Answer 8

philosophy help educational managers to design and to develop education curriculum that promote more on values, ethnics, how to think very cognitively among learners, help the learners to recognize what is reality and what is wrong, how human being came into universe.

Answer 9

philosophy studies the education obstacles hence promotes both teachers and leaners to execute various related concepts towards intended concepts

Answer 10

It enables the student to think critically any given information without merely accepting it because it was stated by grey haired professors. Muhura George.