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Good And Bad Inventions : The World Without Inventions

Good And Bad Inventions : Bad Inventions

Good And Bad Inventions : History's Great Inventions

To begin, it is useful to briefly summarise my upbringing as this further explains my interest in education. I believe I learnt more in 14 months of travelling through Europe in a van when I was ten years old, than in any other year at school. (I was most impressed by the Gothic Cathedrals of Europe, and the old ruined castles.) I was a rebellious but generally kind student. I failed first Year University Physics, largely due to non-attendance of lectures. I have a Bachelor of Education (majored in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics). I taught Science for 4 years. Both my parents were teachers/lecturers. Probably the most important reason for taking education seriously though comes from my love of philosophy, which clearly realises that Education is the most important factor in the evolution of both the individual and society. I think there are some good things happening with the new Outcomes based curriculum that is currently being implemented in the West Australian state schools – I ...

Educational Philosophy / Teaching Philosophy Truth & Reality as the Foundations for Critical Thinking, Reason and Education Quotes on Teaching Philosophy of Education from Famous Philosophers Albert Einstein, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, Plato, Aristotle & Confucius Philosophy of Education / Educational Philosophy: Albert Einstein - My dear children: I rejoice to see you before me today, happy youth of a sunny and fortunate land. Bear in mind that the wonderful things that you learn in your schools are the work of many generations, produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labour in every country of the world. Jean Jacques Rousseau - Begin then by studying your pupils better. For most assuredly you do not know them at all. Michel de Montaigne - Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? Plato - We shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor w...

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. (Albert Einstein) Knowledge of the history and evolution of our ideas is absolutely vital for wise understanding. It is also important to read the original source (not a later interpretation which often leads to misrepresentation and error) and that these original quotes should give confidence to the truth of what we say. As Albert Einstein astutely remarks; Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous. There are only a few enlightened people with a lucid mind and style and with good taste within a century. What has been preserved of thei...