Contribution of Disciplinism and Rationalism

in the Social, Political, Religious and

Educational Life

DAISERIE G. DIME
 REFORMATION
The aim of the protestant reformers was
religious moralism/living a worthy life
will guarantee a glorious life after.
Education therefore, must provide
adequate training in the duties of the
home, occupation, and the state.
 METHOD
Reading was taught by routine, pronunciation
of words, memorization of answers to
questions from gospel, hymns and psalms.
Eventually, due to formalism, the protestant
classroom became a place of terror. Methods
of teachings were rigid, discipline was harsh,
and religious indoctrination became the chief
method.
The Catholic
Counter-
Reformation
The Catholic Counter-Reformation
movement corrected the abuses of the
church. Realizing that the Protestants
used education to further their ends, the
Catholic used also education to win
back dissenters. Teaching orders and
teaching congregations were founded,
parish schools were reorganized and
seminaries were opened to train
leaders.
The aim of Education of Roman Catholic education was
religious moralism. Similar to the aim of the Protestants
except the approach where the latter develop a moral life
through the individual's own interpretation of the bible, while
the Catholic education aimed to develop an unquestioning
obedience to the authority of the church.
EDUCATIONAL METHODS

1. Designated to train leaders.

2. Designated to teach the poor.

3. Designated for spiritual salvation.

 DISCIPLINISM
Disciplinism was characterized by two
reactions during the first half of the 18th
century: the rise of formal discipline, and
the development of aristocracy of
reason or rationalism.
John Locke in some thoughts concerning
education, strongly advocated the
disciplinary theory of education, believing that
the mind of the child was a tabula rasa, a
blank slate. He postulated that everything in
the mind came from experience, which in turn
was based on the perception of the senses.
He believed that the development came only
through formation of habits through
discipline.
AIM
The aim of disciplinism was the
formation of the habits through
discipline.

METHOD

The mind could be developed by

memorizing, creating habits, automatic
mechanism and abstract reasoning.
This philosophy asserts that the mind is
made up of certain faculties: memory,
reason, will and judgment each of which
needs special activities for its training
and development.

With the underlying principles of rigid

physical training or a hardening process
so as to enable the child to possess a
sound mind in a sound body.
RATIONALISM
 RATIONALISM
The rationalists upheld the right of each
individual to his own opinion, liberty of
conscience, and freedom of thought.
They believed that man could bring his
own reason , improved himself and his
institutions, in order to bring about the
general welfare.
It relies on the idea that reality has a
rational structure in that all aspects of it
can be grasped through mathematical
and logical principles, and not simply
through sensory experience.

Rationalists believe that, rather than

being a "tabula rasa" to be imprinted
with sense data, the mind is structured
by, and responds to, mathematical
methods of reasoning.
 Some of our knowledge or the concepts
we employ are part of our innate
rational nature: experiences may trigger
a process by which we bring this
knowledge to consciousness, but the
experiences do not provide us with the
knowledge itself, which has in some way
been with us all along.
René Descartes is one of the earliest
and best known proponents of
Rationalism his famous dictum "Cogito
ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").

He held that some ideas (innate ideas)

come from God; other ideas are derived
from sensory experience; and still others
are fictitious (or created by the
imagination). Of these, the only ideas
which are certainly valid, according to
Descartes, are those which are innate.
 AIM
The rationalism aimed at developing an
individual who could control all aspects of his
life by reason, suppress passions and display
of feelings, to live in a highly artificial society.
Rationalists believe that there is a
reason each object or phenomenon
exists. They also believe that reason is
the essential route to truth, which exists
in the world of ideas. Our minds can
access ideas directly by a priori
reasoning, and innate ideas exist within
our minds before we start thinking.
Some of these innate ideas can tell us
about the world, and are therefore a
priori synthetic truths. Our senses are
open to scepticism and can’t be trusted.
Math is more reliable than observation.
Truth must be defined as a relationship
between ideas. Many truths (about
general facts, rules of thought, and
relations between abstract ideas)
cannot be only be known by reason, not
the senses.
SOURCES:
(https://www.academia.edu/22142125/FOUNDATIONS_OF_EDUCATION_II_RENAISSANCE_PERIOD)
http://philosophyideas.com/files/epistemology/Rationalism%20and%20Empiricism.pdf
ASSESS

1. How was disciplinism and

rationalism used to better our
social, political, religious and
educational life?
Thank You!

DAISERIE
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