On Constructivism

Philosophy of Education: On Constructivism

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3^rd Year Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin.

Knowledge of the students either came from experience or with their rationality to understand reality in which serves as a guideline to where we are to understand the level of grasp a learner is due. Basically, it is a premise to which we affirm that there is indeed a pre-existing knowledge a person or a learner possesses to some extent, and from that, they are to construct further bits of knowledge in their own unique way with of course the help of their pre-existing knowledge, experiences, and the mentoring of some experts through paving a way for a learner to attain standardized individually constructed knowledge, to begin with, to attain a certain level of competencies that is demanded by a criterion of some sort. To analyze, in a philosophical standpoint, we can agree that it is important for some people to learn things in their own unique and individual style, however, if we are to consider the learners as people of different levels of competencies and capacities, meeting a certain criterion for appropriate competencies can be a hassle especially if learners are not concentrated on a small amount. Even if the people are to experience reality to construct or form knowledge on their own, there are still differences, there are people who are fast in learning, and some are paced slower, it is just that, the problem arises in numbers, the only way to solve this difficulty is to have coaching of where students as people are to be handled like a majesty for concentrated evaluation. To implicate, we are all different in our own different and unique way, we all have different say about things we see in reality, but knowledge is still knowledge at the very end of the day, what we construct is philosophical and what we experience is what makes us, us.