IED- 201 –FOUNDATION OF MODERN EDUCATION

1. Should modern education teach students to inquire and ask questions, following with research based answers?

1. Yes, this is how we should teach. A system like this would require students to develop better critical thinking skills. Critical thinking being one
of the most important factors for some employees to have. I believe this will help students find the ability to innovate more, as well as have a
more well-rounded life in the future. Modern education should strive to teach students to inquire and ask questions and follow up with research.
It will encourage a whole new generation of rational thinkers. It is very dangerous and frankly sad to just teach children to blindly believe
everything that they are told without any sense of discovery or inquiry. I believe critical and analytical thinking should be implemented in modern
education.
Today's education includes a variety of things--from replacing textbooks with tablets to learning online, to having conferences over skype and
watching videos on sites like Khan Academy. Fifty years ago, this wasn't imaginable, let alone doable. Technology has helped us in ways we
couldn't have even begun to imagine. Yet with all this technology, modern education still lacks two very critical things: how to think. How? Why?
For what purpose? Is it the truth? Is this source creditable? These are all things students in this generation should learn, yet many schools
continue to have the same curriculum that they had since the last decade, with minor changes, and a few implementations in the technology
department, yet they're missing the whole point.

This is the method that should be taught in schools today. That is the best way to learn, and the best way do develop new ideas and
technology. If schools taught this instead of making students simply spit out things they were told to remember, we would be way ahead. I
believe that modern education we should teach students to inquire and ask questions and use research to back up their answers. Sadly in my
childhood I was not taught this trait and it made college harder for me because the teacher would always ask the question "Why"? or "How?"
Those are very important questions because if you do not have a researched answer then you can be easily discredited. With the new electronic
wave happening an abundance of people have the ability to get information instantly so having researched answers is very important.

2. State the difference between industrial arts educations and liberal arts educations?
Industrial Arts is an educational program which features fabrication of objects in wood or metal using a variety of hand, power, or machine
tools. It may include small engine repair and automobile maintenance, and all programs usually cover technical drawing as part of the curricula.
Industrial Arts classes are colloquially known as "shop class"; these programs expose children to the basics of home repair, manual
craftsmanship, and machine safety. Most Industrial Arts programs were established in comprehensive rather than dedicated vocational
schools and focused on a broad range of skills rather than on a specific vocational training.
Industrial Arts is still a key part of the high school curriculum. The term now describes a key study of technology that focuses on both
engineering and industrial technologies.

The liberal arts are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person to know in order to take an
active part in civic life, something that included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly,
military service. Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also
played a (somewhat lesser) part in education.
Liberal arts education can refer to academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences, or it can
also refer to overall studies in a liberal arts degree program.
Some subsections of the liberal arts are in the trivium—the verbal arts: grammar, logic, and rhetoric; and in the quadrivium—the numerical arts:
arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. Analyzing and interpreting information is also included.
Academic areas that are associated with the term liberal arts include:

 Arts (fine arts, music, performing arts, literature)

 Linguistics
 Mathematics
 Natural science (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth science)
 Philosophy
 Psychology
 Cognitive science
 Religious studies
 Social science (anthropology, economics, geography, political science, sociology, history)
The liberal arts education at the secondary school level prepares the student for higher education at a university. They are thus meant for the
more academically minded students. Some liberal arts education provide general education, others have a specific focus. (This also differs from
country to country.) The four traditional branches are:

 humanities education (specialising in classical languages, such as Latin and Greek)

 modern languages (students are required to study at least three languages)
 mathematical-scientific education
 economical and social-scientific education (students are required to study economics, world history, social studies and business informatics)
Curricula differ from school to school, but generally include language, mathematics, informatics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography, art (as
well as crafts and design), music, history, philosophy, civics / citizenship,[16] social sciences, and several foreign languages.