On Existentialism

Philosophy of Education: On Existentialism

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3^rd Year Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Existentialist Education as a Philosophical thought is simply about the relationship of Freedom and Responsibility, that pertains to how a student will know values there is in reality if such student will find meaning to such values in their own individual will and of freedom. The Philosophy of Existentialist Education is about acknowledging the individual, that he/she has his own life, has his own freedom, has his own ideas, and all of the aspects of such individual must be respected and is correct. To analyze, the Philosophy of existentialist education is indeed profound, that we are to respect the differences there is in the real world being, in a way that we are indeed free and different in the very first place, there are no monotonous students and of individual that should exist, because what would be the point of living if we are all just the same. In conventional education, we are conditioned to learn things that are being taught by teachers, priests, and authorities, but such teachings are not effective because we impose things on students, for philosophy of existentialist education, values, and bits of knowledge and learnings are to be experienced first-hand by any individual, we should internalize values rather than being forced with, only then they can know what values are, what bits of knowledge are, and what learning is, and what they actually mean. To implicate, sometimes in life, we are being dictated, we are being imposed, we are being forced to grasp things that seem incomprehensible, we are all different in every aspect, the only wrong in this generation is that, we do not value the individual for their differences, therefore, we must correct such thinking through learning to respect every existing person in their differences and let them be.