"A ruler of..." Reflection

This peace i believe has many meanings and undertones of life in general. In the beggining it seemed as through this peace was only talking about what things appeare to be and what things really are. For example people look at christmas as the time of year for gift giving and fancy things cutting down trees and dressing them up all nice but they dont really realize that is it truely suppose to be a very spiritual and religious day for christians. They dont realize that are cutting down trees that we need in our invironment not only just to breathe but for animals to live in as well. But we humans are selfish ans we only think for the present.
However the peace take a different tone especial towards the end when it was talking about the dentist doing their job. It goes into detail about how everyone has their purpose in life and whatever that purpose may be we must be efficient in our purpose becuase if we are not then we are inferior to the world.
It also touches on the simple things that takes place in the world such as weather changes and animal behavior which are all parts of life so i assume that it wants to address the fact that we are all connected in the circle of life, that everysingle living organism needs one another to survive and live strong successfully.

Reflection 18

I disagree with the statement " In America, education has alwaus been viewed as a vehicle for improving the society at large." People in this society complain about the younger generation but never look to improve the education system. If education really is "viewed" as helping improve the society at large than our education system would not have as many flaws as it currently does. educated people tend to be less inclined to do criminal activity, yes but none the less our "society" at large is not putting any effort in helping spread awareness of the power of knowledge. Our society has one to many short comings to many teenagers droping out of high school too many collage students not getting their degree, and not really seeing the need to. They feel they can get by with being medicore and so they settle for the average.
We as a country, as a poeple want to improve society at large right now, but do we look towards educationt to do that? Do we motivate and encourage, and pay our teachers to help improve the quality of education our students get and show them that we care about what happens to our future generations education?
These questions all havevery simple answers, we want to improve our society but we do not do anything about improving our education system. Our generation will be lost without guidance from parents and guidance counslers who want our children to succeed no matter what the difficulty level. We want leaders who will tell them they can beat the odds and over come there circumstance. Do we view education as a way to improve society as a whole... no we dont, but we should. If eduacation is the vechile to improve society at large than why hasnt anyone filled her up with gas?
we blame our society on factors that do not matetr int he long run, we need to make sure were teaching our kids to look at the big picture! to see how this will effect the later rather than the short and short lived benefits of the now. People view education as something that is forced upon them by their parents, peers etc.. It needs to be viewed as a tool for self improvement and self growth.

#17

The role of religion in Coloniel American education was very prominant. It encompesed a great deal of their academic teachings. They did not have much room for religious tolerance, they taught their lessons based solely on the bible. Verses U.S. education that teaches religous tolerance and doesnt allow teachers to empose their religous beliefs on their students. Another reason for this is that America has alot of immigrants and harbors alot of people from differant countries so we have developed a tolerance and respect for other people right to freedom. Where-as coloniel america did not they had no scientist then they did not have many immigrants and they knew no other way than the way in which they were taught, the way the bible teaches. They drew from the bible and used the fear of God to implant their youth with the proper murals etc.. coloniels focused on conformity and United States education did not even though there were many diverse religions they all shared a love for learning and higher education.
Coloniel schools of New England also discriminated against people who were not wealthy or religious leaders. Even tp a certain degree against their own women, because it was not considered neccessary for women to have a higher education. They were taught based upon the expected needs of her family. In the USA we have come along way, we now live in a country were women are accepted for who and what they are, and whose academic studies differ in no way from that of a male student. The students can now pick which subjects bestsuit their lifestyle instead of having it dictated to them. In coloniel new england everyone thatwent to school was learning to take on the family legacy and work on the plantation they wanted to them to conform and not be to expressful. which differ from america because we had to be accecptful and open to toher kinds of poeple and jobs because of our background and our common intrest in education.
There are many differances between coloniel new england and education and modern USA education we have come along way and made huge advances in sciene and the arts as well as our tolerance and reliance on religion.

Reflection 16

Rhetoris basically was or is the art or the ability to persuade it is an ability of language. It was used until the 19 century in western education. In order for public speakers and writers to be able to move an audience they had to be trained in this. The mojority of the sofist thatwe just learned about in this course duch as Aristle, Plato, and Socrates used this methood in their arguements to move the aaudience.
I belivieve that this particular form of language evolved into a new way of thinking especially when it was being taught. The most " wise" men where traveling this world with this ability and i believe that it made romen education want to upgradethere way of education to be more knowedgable of the world and the world traits of a sophist. The ability to express properly your arguement and make other understand, comprehend and then take your point f view was a very essential tool to be able to use.
It was a very influential way to teach. People wanted this trait. For the simple fact thatyou would be look at as intellegent man if u were capable of doin this artof a language. This particular skill was very usefull for men in the political and public speakin citizen. Ofcourse it would've been some whatuseless to an acerage farmer who's only tasks and or abitions were to grow crops and raise cattle.
Honestly in my opinion i feel that rhetoric was a state of mind. However it was up to the "man" or the individual who wants to think differently of what they have been taught by theur parents in Rome. You had to want to feel something and you had to make someone else inderstand how you feel about something and even further then that you have to want them to feel the same that you feel about the situation atthe very end of the arguement. It's actually winning a battle off the battle field even though it enitially started when two disagreeing parties. But once you have persuaded some else t oview some as you do; you have truelly deffieated the other point of view regardlessif you were right or wrong. I believe that when Rome was exposed to the art of language that it was deffinately fuel for the to expand the posibilities of better education.

Reflection 15

Ancient Athenian educations purpose was for their sons a rounded education and for the appreciation of many things in the world. From the ages of seven to fourteen boys where taught in on room something similar to a cubical. Theywere taught musical traits like singing and playing an instrument for entertaining friends and family. Greeks believed that music helped purified and cleansed the soul.
Gymnastics was also a big partof the athenian curiculum. Of course this was to build a great warrior out of the young men they were taught how to swim and play on teams naked and covered in olive oil. They were also taught how to wrestle each other and throw javeline and discus. Of course the females were kept at home where they were tuaght house keeping and thing of that nature,
The ancient Roman education for a period of tim ethe children were taught by their parents. The mother taught the girls and the boys until about the age of seven and they continued on teaching the girls housework and anything else that would be essential for girls t be knowlegdeable of. When the boys approached the age of seven they were sent to their fathers to be taught. It was the fathers responsibility to pass on the knowledge that he saw fit to suceed in life. Eventually public schooling was offered for the less fortunate children and reading and writting was a very slow process that took alot of time for the children to grasp properly. They were still taught by the same sex parents especialy if they knew how to read and write and the girls were taught to sew, weave, and learning to spin. Of course education was really based on how poor you were. The poorest children were taaught by there parents, middle class were taught by there slaves and the others were either sent a tutor or they were able to attend proper schooling.
The apparent difference is deffinately culture. The Athenian culture I believe was more fixed upon war and soldiers but they deffinately want to have warriors that were capable of winning a war outside of the battle feild. Romen education was just that education but it was very limited education.

Reflection 13

Plato believed in searching for "absolute truth" which similair to the philosphier socratse had alot to do with the subject of science. Searching for truths that are already there are just looking for things to discover. Things that we discover have always been there we just have not found out the "truth". He also tryed to teach people to believe in ideas and not be so materialistic and this would aid in ultimately finding the truth. He also belived that the people who sought out knowledge and found it successfully had a duty to spread it and/or teach that knowledge to others.
His effect on modern western education has an effect on our teachers alone, they are ones who saught out knowledge and are making us (the people) aware of it. Students are so impressed and enlightened by this knowledge that they in turn continue the chain of student becoming teachers and enlighteneing the ones left int he dark with shallow spaces in their mind. People who are educated like to educate weither they become teacher/professors or not in it part of human nature to want to spread your knowledge onto someone else. It is not rare for someone to want to educate the people that they are around with what they have been shown and taught is a fact that should very well learned. So any uneducated person will learn something if he/she surrounds herself/himself with intellectual minds or encounters someone of a higher IQ eager to show-off their findings of the truth.
Plato put alot of emphasis on teachers and intellectual leaders to teach properly. He felt that philosophers should become leaders or that leaders should become philosphiers for a perfect society to exsist. In modern western education today this stil holds true, intellectual deep and well thought out minds that seek the truth should ultimatley make those decisions that effect our world. Decisions based on facts and critical thinking and a systamatic approach to decison making than an irrational emotion driven decision. We as a people now know that we must educate ourselves in order to choose a proper leader, we must go and seek the education needed to make rational decisions that will help us in the future to become more functional and happy. We can not leave everything up to one specific group of people and hope that it will work out in our favor, for example we can not choose not to vote but then complain about who is in office and what they do with our country.

Reflection 14

The impact of aristotle on modern western education is not complicated to understand, unlike his teachings. His formula for happiness was well thought out simple and concise, It was logical and left no room for arguements or disputes. He did not believe that ignorance is bliss he thoguht the complete opposite of that statement. Aristotle also felt that humans had natural and aquired desires. Aquired desire could disguise themselves as needs but realla differ from each individual based on differant sets of circumstances, Natural desires are things that we truely could not survive without. The human physic believe that somethings that are aquired need are natural needs and confuse the two, they use the exapmle of ffod being a natural need but the type of food being an aquired need. Some people feel that the things that are good for us are hard to do or bad. Aristotle is similair to soraste in their wisedom it is for having cmplex extravagent ideologies but simply taking behavors and categorizing them into logical explainations.
The effect Aristotle has on modern western education is simple people will always be in the pursuit of happiness and the problem is no one can really define it exactly the same or write down a fool proof formula to acheive it. But Aristotle laid out a theory that can be proven and should be practiced by everyoe who seeks true happiness. In seekign happiness you are seeking intellectual and moral excellance. School is higher education and more knowledge and knowledge is power. People exert over their lives a cetain amount of power and one fo them is to better imporve themselves and self improvement usually leads to being more functional and being more functional makes a person happy. Remembering that a person needs to say yes to their needs and no to their wants. I believe that schools should focus more on hsi teachings and use them to explain to students who want to drop out for what ever reasons that this choice is not llogical in their happiness and is only proveing theor ignorance and inexperiance. I feel education is a natural want ( it is something we need to survive) This impact on modern western education may be subtle but there none the less. Schools have to remember that not everything in life in complex and difficult to grasp if he take the time to really think it through the answers are quit simple but difficult to achieve.

Reflection 12

Sputnik was the first artifical satellite into the earths optical orbit. The Introducation of mathimatical problem solving and sciences and adding intructional materials such as activities and active assignments into the class room after Sputnik was launched. Mainly science and math was mainly dominated by males. Males came into math and science department as many fields but this does not hold true today.
When you think of science the first visual image you see is a child with his science fair volcano or a starifome model of the planets. Two main points are the first thing you think of is a visual image. Science is known for stimulating and emulating replicas of its subject matter. From diagrams such as the famous table of elements or the evolution of man, to its models of cells and the human skeleton that have been in classrooms for over a decade. Science uses these tolls to aid in teaching the complex content of the subject. Second is the hands on deductive reasoning science forces you to use such as the scientific method to using a microscope to exaime cells and other microscopic life forms. Science forces you to use critical thinking and make logical choices for yourself, not to be mistaken with relying solely on personal opinion. Science is what philosophiers like Socrates were predicting. Not that the human just comes up with their own conclusion and then blindly accepts it as fact, but that a human comes up with a theory or thesis and tests it and finds evidence that this theory is a proven fact. Math is a method used to figure out the answer to the question why.
Sputnik opened up the feild of science into the broad array of subject we have today. Philospohers such as Socrates could only fathom such steps in our education. Questioning the unknown and figuring out whats out there. This lead to many other space programs that broaden our education. Sputnik also lead to break throughs in mathimatical equations and deductive reasoning. We now had a whole solar system to explore and teach to our new generation. Our society is based on the evolution of our technology and the strides we have taken since our theory of the earth being flat. It raises questions and seeks out answers education is evolution and Sputnik lead the revolution in the math and science.

Reflection 11

Education is a process of man trying to prevent more problems or present a soloution for a problem they already have. Without history there would be no education and without education there would be progress. Everything has a cause and an effect and if we do not know the cause we will always be helpless. Socrates sought out the idea of an answer elsewhere than the gods, which had a major effect on his society.
In Ancient Greek people realied solely on the gods for everything. They had so much faith in the gods that they feared their lives. They realied on "spiritual leaders" (priests) to guide them on the right path or rightous life. relying on destiny and measuring success based on the gods points of view, if a person was successful they were successful because the gods ordained it. If they failed it was the gods wishes that they be a failure and never question why, however Socrates dared to think other wise. He changled those who had never been changled before he was considered radical in his views and percieved as a threat to the leaders at that time. So in an effort to abolish this frame of mind and keep it from spreading to the youth they prosuacuted him and sentenced him to death. Even then he didnt abondon his views or flee like a discouraged rebel with no solid belief in a cause, he willingly drunk the posion that ended his life because he believe in democracy and proved it the day he died.
To be a man accused of destruction of the mind and belief of young men was irrational because he was making small steps into helping men make better lives for themselves. This provoked the thought of reasoning for man. The Impact of these ideas in the modern western civilization there have been alot of changes due to these ideas how man eats, practice religion, and preform their daily duties. Man walks around with less fear in their god which is a negative because it reflects less faith in a form, but man is more intelligent and more dependent than ever in history today. Its said that Socrates killed god because people stoped fearing god, but to the contrary people have realised that god has given us choices and the choices we make effect our lives. Religion is still very much alive in our society as part of our education and part of our every day life.