Philosophy of Education: Questions for Reflection and Discussion

Thank you, Sarah and Jenny, for your reports. You did an excellent job!

I already uploaded the file for this afternoon's topic on MSTeams. Kindly read it and choose one question below and post your reply as a comment:

• What are the two primary perspectives concerning philosophy of education?
• What’s the dilemma of education?
• Who is the recognized intellectual pioneer of the instrumentalist view of education?
• What are the four basic elements in the instrumentalist view of education? What are its problems
• Looking from the idealist perspective, what are the unresolvable difficulties faced by the instrumentalist?
• How does an idealist resolve the problem of the ideals and the standard in education?
• What’s the response of an instrumentalist to such a view?
• What’s Van Til’s assessment of the two identified schools of thought?
• Summarize the educational theories contained in the Harvard Report, by Arnold S. Nash, by Henry P. Van Dusen, by Rome, by Protestant Fundamentalism, and by Reformed theology.

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