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Philosophy in Education Quotes & Practices

The document lists various educational philosophies and quotes and matches them to the philosophies they are associated with. It also lists different educational programs, practices, and approaches and matches them to the philosophies they are anchored in. The philosophies discussed include progressivism, essentialism, existentialism, behaviorism, perennialism, and linguistic philosophy.

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Philosophy in Education Quotes & Practices

The document lists various educational philosophies and quotes and matches them to the philosophies they are associated with. It also lists different educational programs, practices, and approaches and matches them to the philosophies they are anchored in. The philosophies discussed include progressivism, essentialism, existentialism, behaviorism, perennialism, and linguistic philosophy.

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A. With which philosophy do you associate the following quotations?

1. “Education is life not a preparation for life”. –Dewey


 Progressivism
2. “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself….” –Sartre
 Existentialism
3. “Gripping and enduring interests frequently grow out of initial learning
efforts that are not appealing or attractive.”
 Essentialism
4. “Give me a dozen healthy infants, well informed, and my own specified
world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take anyone at random
and train him to become any type of specialist I might select – doctor,
lawyer, artist, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar-man and thief,
regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and
race of his ancestors.” –Watson
 Behaviorism
5. “Existence precedes essence.” –Sartre
 Existentialism
6. “Life is what you make it.” –William Thackeray
 Existentialism
7. “Listening in dialogue is listening more to meaning than to words… In
true listening, we reach behind the words see through them, to find the
person who is being revealed. Listening is a search to find the treasure of
the true person as revealed verbally and nonverbally…” – John Powell

8. “When a relationship is working, the act of communicating seems to flow
relatively effortlessly…” – Chip Rose

B. Upon which philosophy/ies is each program/practice anchored?

1. Back-to-the Basics movement


 Essentialism
2. Conduct of National Achievement Test to test acquisition of
elementary/secondary learning competencies
 Essentialism
3. Use of the Great Books
 Perennialism
4. Use of rewards and incentives
 Behaviorism
5. Use of simulation and problem-solving method
 Progressivism
6. Learners learning at their own pace
 Existentialism
7. Mastery of the 3 r’s – reading, writing and ‘rithmetic
 Essentialism
8. The traditional approach to education
 Essentialism
9. Subject matter-centered teaching
 Essentialism or Perennialism
10. Student-centered teaching
 Progressivism or Existentialism
11. Authoritarian approach to teaching
 Essentialism or Perennialism
12. Non-authoritarian approach to teaching
 Progressivism or Existentialism
13. Making meaning of what is taught

14. Understanding message through verbal, non-verbal and para-
verbal means
 Linguistic Philosophy
15. Asking learners to draw meaning from what they are taught

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