Republic of the Philippines

DR. EMILIO B. ESPINOSA SR. MEMORIAL STATE COLLEGE

OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
(Masbate State College)
http://www.debesmscat.edu.ph
Mandaon, Masbate
GRADUATE SCHOOL

HUME AND MONTESSORI

Almarie L. Fuentes
MaEd major in ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Historical and Philo-Social Foundations of Education Student

DAVID HUME
David Hume is one of the world’s great philosophical voices because he hit upon a key fact
about human nature, that we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason. Hume thought
that if we could learn to deal well with this surprising fact of life, we could be both individually
and collectively a great deal calmer and happier than if we denied it.
Hume’s philosophy is built around a single powerful observation: that the key thing we need
to get right in life is feeling rather than rationality. It sounds like an odd conclusion. A key place
where Hume made use of the idea of the priority of feeling over reason was in connection with
religion. He didn’t think it was rational to believe in God. He was what is technically known as a
skeptic, some committed to doubting a lot of the common-sense ideas of the day. Hume took a
great interest in the traditional philosophical topic of Ethics. A conundrum of how humans can
be good. His philosophy always emerged as an attempt to answer a personal question like what is
a good life, etc.
For him, a philosopher, alive to how much Philosophy can have to learn from common-
sense.

MARIA MONTESSORI
Montessori Education is based on the principles developed by Maria Montessori. She
created the materials after she realized that students seem to understand complex concepts better
when they engaged all their senses. She also observed that children showed episodes of deep
concentration and multiple repetitions of the same activity. Kids showed more interest in
practical activities and the materials than normal toys, sweets or other rewards by giving free
choice.
Montessori concluded that working independently, children seemed to reach new levels of
autonomy and become self-motivated learners. She began to see the role of the teacher as a
facilitator of young human beings who are free to move and act within the limits of a prepared
environment. Her goal is to grow children to become independent and responsible adults who
share a love for learning.
 In education system today, her philosophy on education is more applied such as students are
free to choose what to learn and open classrooms that allow free movement. Because according
to her, “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”