On Idealism

Philosophy of Education: On Idealism

Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3^rd Year Philosophy

University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines

Idealism as a Philosophy of Education is simply emphasizing the intellectual properties of a human person to develop in areas that would bring man into development and progressiveness at the very end of the day. Idealism in Education is manifested in a concrete context such as in a classical four-cornered classroom where interaction between a teacher and student takes place to attain the main goal which is excellence in the learning field. As we can see, the interaction between student and teacher is linear, that is, the role of the teacher is to be an expert and all-knowing to teach their students to excel in academics or anything therewith under the sun in general, in its sense, the school of thought of Idealism is a school of thought in which it aims for raising the bar in attaining criteriology of global academic competencies. We can agree that Idealism as a school of thought is indeed effective when it comes to attaining excellence, attaining development, and imparting global academic excellence, the only downside is that, since the teachers are experts and are ought to know everything, it gives the narrative that teachers “impose” knowledge and is slightly hindering democratic practice, to begin with, since it does not acknowledge the fact of the difference principle. The practice of Idealism in Education has been practiced hundreds of years back and still is being practiced, our search for development is still in progress, we have a long way to go in regards to attaining all bits of knowledge in the world to be, at the very end of the day, the goal of Idealistic education is universal education, in effect, it aims global excellence and universal criterion in competencies.