The most basic application of the discipline of Ethics
Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:37 am
One of the most basic applications of theoretical Ethics - if not the most important of all - is Education; Life Coaching {adult education}; and Therapy {remedial education.} If I claim that today we need to improve education, and provide more of it, this does not meet with controversy – especially from educated people such as those who are here.
And if I further claim that good education of a child should start at birth, and that it should at least consist in teaching values, I don’t think I’ll get an argument …from most of you.
As I define it, Education is applied Ethics. The job of the teacher is to get to know each student, their interests, and their innate gifts, and to show each student how to be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Teachers need a small class because their job is to draw out from each student their background experience and help the student see the relevance, to understand how each topic learned is in some way relevant to the student’s life.
In addition the teacher (of the future) may function as a proctor who gives quizzes and exercises, and scores work-books, all to see if the pupils understood the material they saw on the screen. {I heard that up in Quebec, that function too has already been replaced by computers.} On the screen was a video lecture not only by an acknowledged genius in the field of the subject matter of that specific lesson, but also a master public speaker. S/he teaches the lesson in that discipline, be it Physics, Math, English Grammar, Literary Appreciation, Poetry, Genetics, Information Technology, Programming, or the new science of Moral Psychology, about which I will elaborate in a moment.
The classroom teacher in the future will also teach art appreciation, hands-on graphic and painting skills, music, voice training, the practical arts, and crafts - such as wood-working, carpentry, model-building, and some computer skills. Most basic computer stuff will be taught by that world-class expert on the big screen, in 3D, with all the best props at his or her disposal …or on many little i-pad-like screens, and always with the teacher on hand to relate it to the child’s experience.. {To use the terminology of the Unified Theory of Ethics, q.v., Conception is systemic; Perception is extrinsic; but EXPERIENCE is Intrinsic Value. When we experience something, it becomes an integral part of our life. See especially End Note 4 in http://tinyurl.com/crz6xea }
All constructive comments and suggestions are welcome.
And if I further claim that good education of a child should start at birth, and that it should at least consist in teaching values, I don’t think I’ll get an argument …from most of you.
As I define it, Education is applied Ethics. The job of the teacher is to get to know each student, their interests, and their innate gifts, and to show each student how to be and become all he or she is capable of being and becoming. Teachers need a small class because their job is to draw out from each student their background experience and help the student see the relevance, to understand how each topic learned is in some way relevant to the student’s life.
In addition the teacher (of the future) may function as a proctor who gives quizzes and exercises, and scores work-books, all to see if the pupils understood the material they saw on the screen. {I heard that up in Quebec, that function too has already been replaced by computers.} On the screen was a video lecture not only by an acknowledged genius in the field of the subject matter of that specific lesson, but also a master public speaker. S/he teaches the lesson in that discipline, be it Physics, Math, English Grammar, Literary Appreciation, Poetry, Genetics, Information Technology, Programming, or the new science of Moral Psychology, about which I will elaborate in a moment.
The classroom teacher in the future will also teach art appreciation, hands-on graphic and painting skills, music, voice training, the practical arts, and crafts - such as wood-working, carpentry, model-building, and some computer skills. Most basic computer stuff will be taught by that world-class expert on the big screen, in 3D, with all the best props at his or her disposal …or on many little i-pad-like screens, and always with the teacher on hand to relate it to the child’s experience.. {To use the terminology of the Unified Theory of Ethics, q.v., Conception is systemic; Perception is extrinsic; but EXPERIENCE is Intrinsic Value. When we experience something, it becomes an integral part of our life. See especially End Note 4 in http://tinyurl.com/crz6xea }
All constructive comments and suggestions are welcome.