On Humanism

Philosophy of Education: On Humanism

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3^rd Year Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines

"Humanism is an approach to life which encourages ethical and fulfilling living on the basis of reason and humanity, and rejects superstition and religion. The most immediate impact of living as a Humanist is that we believe this life is all there is - so what we do and the choices we make really count." ~ Stephen Fry

Of all things that we are, our concern is but our own humanity, the Philosophy of Humanist Education plays the role of aiming for the reality of where we as humans can flourish in reality and nature as we art part of such categories. The curriculum in that particular school emphasizes the faith for humanity, being humane, and just society, and therefore the policies that ensure we treat students as humans that have emotions and has desires, to begin with. To analyze, we can be certain that we must be optimistic about what we expect of every people because it is true that everyone is best at something at some point, we can never predict human behavior that is why we are in need of a free and encouraging manner type of education or a system that would welcome people as humanely as possible. That being said, even if we are to establish an education that is welcoming and is humane, we still are in need of a criterion to which we are to access certain competencies that would able to describe the level of development there is in a humanist education at the very end of the day, therefore, it can fell short in structurization, especially when we are to tackle the discussion about global academic concerns or real universal concerns respectively. To implicate, we are indeed different in our own ways, we must sometimes feel that we are welcome in anything, but we must always be reminded, that our freedom corresponds to responsibility and therefore we must ensure that use such freedom wisely and not randomly.