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Joshua Caesar O. Elegado, 3rd Year Philosophy
University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi, Philippines
“Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. ... We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.”
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
Education really is about transforming, innovating, and reforming societies to its betterment in the entirety, it is possible to be pushed through in the means of the educational praxis, that is, incorporating the philosophical discussions into application resulting into progressive programs that ultimately be utilized as a tool for transforming societies at the very end of the day. The bottom line is that, as time progresses, societies as dynamic as they are, must adapt to the progress time created, in effect, education must adapt and progress as well, a reason why educational paradigm as progressive and transformative is deemed to be necessary to move societies into its betterment. The paradigm of educational praxis simply lies under critical pedagogy that paves way for the possibility of community development, because the conventional education is primarily not effective nor does possess the quality to bring people to be critical, which actually promotes mediocrity and results in stagnancy and complacency; in the Philippine context, conventional education is simply not effective, because if it is; average Philippine intelligence quotient would be above average, employment rates would be at an all-time high, poverty would not be an issue, the authoritarian regime would not even dare to sprout in the very first place, the political efficacy of the constituents would have been indeed compelling, but at the very end of the day, if we cannot reform education to be transformative, we are to be stuck in these downward spiral of mediocrity. It goes to show that the reality of some societies is left behind and has built a shelter of complacency; what then must be done is to rectify the system in the means of transformative education in the paradigm of educational praxis; it must be constructive in a way that it is realizable, in order to open doors to people being critical in his reality, in result, education is not only a room for learning lower-order thinking skills, rather, it is an avenue to improve and develop the quality of lives of the people, in effect; the worst of sectors would benefit while the better of are continuously learning, yet, it does not discredit the better of, rather, it is a continuous process with an objective; that is, to rectify the disparities, and continuously improve and develop humanity in the larger sense. To implicate, indeed, there are observable issues that are actually occurring in the status quo, to which it affects societies in a larger sense, if we regard that such educational praxis to be true, we can literally end mediocrities in societies ( social issues that are mentioned in the third sentence) to the extent we can establish a well-ordered society because of the element of political liberalism that is embedded in the educational praxis; but at the very end of the day, in realization, education is the key for development, not only in terms of academics but of the betterment of humanity in its entirety that truly remains realizable, it is a process, with that being said, I have strong hope and will remain hopeful.
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