Eric Brooks
Philosophy Paper
April 3, 2017
Education is free from the constraints of age, race, class, gender, and learning disabilities. It has no boundaries, reaching beyond the doors of the classroom and through the walls of the school and around the world. Education infinitely transcends generations and can last throughout one’s lifetime causing today’s pupil to become lifelong learning. It gives power to its possessor and increases the wisdom of its user. It gives light to the darkness of ignorance and satisfies the hunger of the inquisitive. The purpose of education is the development of the uniqueness of individual students while also providing the framework of knowledge for the student by which new information can be gathered, comprehended, and applied. I love education because I love to learn. It is empowering, liberating, and it causes me to grow intellectually and to become more culturally sensitive and aware. As a teacher, I believe that I am a catalyst of education for my students and I want to share my passion of education with my students.
With education being such a powerful tool for personal success and social change and a weapon against ignorance and poverty, it is my responsibility and privilege as a teacher to be a conduit of information for students. My role as a teacher is to cause each student to learn by assessing the learning styles, capabilities, and limitations of each student and applying the most useful techniques for optimal comprehension. To do this effectively, I will work as a team with the parents, students, and in some instances the special education teacher, to find out the student’s strengths and areas of improvements in order to reach each student’s best potential.
As an educator, I am judge by the fruit I bare. Self-sufficient independent life-long learning productive members of society are the fruit I desire to bare. I believe that as a teacher I should facilitate the individual development of each pupil and the collective development of future productive citizens who will make positive contributions to society. I think it is important to allow students to identify problems and work together to find definitive solutions to the problems which will prepare them to work cohesively together in society. I will model the behaviors, attitudes, and conduct of a leader which my students will observe and immolate in their homes, neighborhoods, and communities and transfer them into society.