My Philosophy of Education

Education to me is a process, which makes everyone understand individual capabilities and potential, make them reflective through experience and take actions for larger good. But the biggest question is that, “are the educational institutes giving such platforms to our children where they can groom their qualities, learn to take responsibilities and be reflective practitioners? Or are these institutes just driving students’ towards their ideology and indoctrinate beliefs to match the demands of some job industry? I have a strong opinion that many educational institutions are certainly trying to achieve the second statement. However, education to me is not about what you think is right but is about giving right platform to a learner where he/she can actually groom themselves through trail and error basis to realize their potential, be passionately involved in it and gain experience through constant reflection on their repertoire. The basis of education should be happiness, which would lead to success of an individual.

 Hence as a facilitator I strongly believe that institutes should create a right platform as stated before for the learners to explore to extend possible so that they choose what they are interested and also develop passion for particular domain to be a connoisseur. As a matter of fact what is happening across many institutions is that they cane to the syllabus, which in most cases has been huge documents, and actually fail to teach concepts. Teaching to me is not about twining to syllabus rather about teaching concepts deftly. I undeniably have no dishonor to teachers who have null or very little hands in the making of the frameworks but to those who frame curriculum and syllabus should be more practical while designing. The more precise the syllabus is, the more likely it is for the governesses to plan and design teaching with versatile strategies. The vastness of the syllabus is inversely proportional to versatile strategies and methodologies, which serves as a chain between teaching and learning.

To me, to teach students rules alone is useless unless we teach them how to frame rules. When you teach them rules you are teaching them to be followers but when you teach how to make rules you are making them to be reflective, inquirers and leaders. Leaders in scientific world means making our learners Scientists, inventors and designers, as it can only be achieved when we start teaching students why a particular formula was derived and how, when and where it can be used. Why and how will explain the purpose and process while when and where explains the time and conditions required. Therefore when we teach concepts from these angles, it will definitely make learners reflective and passionate for learning. When one has passion for subject they start learning on their own as they become self-directed learners to be leaders and each small achievement would embrace happiness, which would lead to success.

 We also must make them understand the purpose of life rather than making them to study hard to get good grades in life. The purpose of life is to live and let others live. Therefore when learners start believing that the world we live belongs to everyone they learn to share and care. They will learn to use resources according to their need and sustain themselves and sustain for the future generations. Hence they need to feel for everything they learn. This comes through experiential learning. Without making learners feel for whatever they learn, the facilitators might just confuse them and they might become subjectphobic as they come across many theories, formulas, definitions and equations. Therefore experiential learning will make learners subjectphilc because they know the root cause of each phenomena. Experiential learning comes through observation, experiment and research. This is where we need to bring change to change the system.

Last but not the least, as quoted by Lincoln “it is far more honorable to fail then to cheat’, we must teach them that there is no shame in failing. We must teach them the values and being honorable shows that them have more wisdom although passing by cheating might make someone think the they are knowledgeable. We must teach that knowledge is power but wisdom is wealth. We must teach them to learn to celebrate victories and accept defeats. We must teach them problems are the part of everyone’s life and the difference is made by the way we face them. We must teach them to retain good charismas and morals and preserve them yet discard the bad ones but learn. We must teach them that united we stand and divided we fall hence they need to be a team player. After all we must teach them to be leaders not boss because a leader is the one who leads not orders. This is what education should endure at the end of the day.

R C Dahal