If you could create a school....what would you learn, philosophy, arts, self-exploring....anyways. what would be taught. what would be important to your school. Tell me all about it.
2007-09-10 12:30:32 · 8 answers · asked by kissable kimmy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
The school I would create would be based on study around the knowledge contained in the Ancient Library of Alexandria.
"The original library at Alexandria in Egypt was one of the wonders of the ancient world. Founded by Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC,built and enlarged by Ptolemy I,Alexander's successor,the city's library comprised perhaps as many as 700,000 manuscripts - the whole corpus of knowledge accumulated by ancient philosophers,scientists and poets.And it was all contained in a building thought by the ancients to have been of surpassing beauty,not a trace of which survives ."
The library was said to have been burned by the troops of Julius Caesar around 47 BC. The knowledge of mankind accumulated to that time was housed there and if it had not been lost, the industrial revolution may have happed centuries earlier and today one can only wonder where we might be.
g-day!
2007-09-10 13:06:55 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be a giant blue-green spherical orb floating thousands and thousands of miles from any other large object in the void. There, after a messy arrival, you'd start off completely aware that you truly don't know anything compared to vast knowledge and wisdom to be had in this new place.
Now keep that sense of wonder and bewilderment close, because after a few years you'll forget that you truly don't know as much as you think you do. Never stop exploring and discovering; There is no such thing as an ordinary moment.
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Oh, and there'd be unlimited ice cream.
2007-09-10 19:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First, I would separate students. Those who want to attend and those who do not.
Second, I would restructure each discipline into "history", "theory" and "applied". The history of Philosophy, the Theories of Philosophy and then Applied Philosophy to discuss new, creative and innovative thinking in the field.
Third, I would incorporate life skills and coping skills as part of the curriculum.
Fourth, as for content, emerging fields should be mandatory across all disciplines. Controversial and unpopular theories would receive as much time as conventional and traditional approaches.
Fifth, I think specialist programs should be offset with multidisciplinary degrees that should be added to meet with the needs of a changing world.
2007-09-10 19:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think school today offers a wide and fair variety of themes and courses,for different tastes, a really wide one on Mathematics, Literature, Writing, etc, Science, Arts....
It's perfect...now MY school would require attendance to be only every other day on weekdays, for instance Monday (school), tuesday (NO school), and so on, until saturday and sunday which are both NO school days....lots of rest, and freedom for doing whatever you want: working, going out, sleeping, anything....wow, I'm already daydreaming here, that'd be paradise, my utopia....
2007-09-10 19:49:05 · answer #4 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
atheletes only get to play if they maintain A averages,
bullies are expelled and charged as adults for assault and battery
the school is open all year round and teachers are paid what their worth
personal finance and investing are taught as math alternatives. even einstein needed to balanace a checkbook
the military is NOT allowed to get student files.
NO Mcat. students pass or fail on merit.
NO city year type paying kids to volunteer. If cityyear didn't give that stipend they'ed probably get five kids tops to participate
NO CREATIONISM in science class
NO prayers in school or at functions or games ( it's an endorsement of a religeon which violates the first amendment)
NO zero tolerance or political correctness, just common sense and self responsibility
shop kids getting credit for participating in community projects
2007-09-10 19:45:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think I would make a school of where students can pick any course they want. It would be on water, so you would have like boats and inflatable desks and swimsuits. It would have stoplights telling the boats when to go and stuff.
2007-09-10 19:36:29 · answer #6 · answered by volleygirl726 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi Kissable K!
This sounds like a school assignment question! I do not like to answer people's schoolwork questions. If I am incorrect in this assumption, I apologize.
All you have to do to answer this question, is to lay out your own wishful thinking academic curriculum, and explain your reasons. It's not that difficult! :)
Mine would involve nobody answering other people's schoolwork questions. Why? Because one of the main purposes of education is its capacity to teach people how to think. You can't learn how to think if you have other people do it for you.
Best,
TQRP
2007-09-10 19:43:35 · answer #7 · answered by Theron Q. Ramacharaka Panchadasi 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Socrates is the teacher and Jesus Christ is the librarian.
I would ask Socrates the meaning of life and I would ask Jesus Christ what he thought of the Bible.
2007-09-10 19:40:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋