NAME : CAREN MAY BRAGA Course/Year: BEED GE 3-A Deadline Sept.

14, 2023

Instruction:

Honestly find out to which philosophy you adhere. To what extent does each statement apply to
you? Rate yourself 4 if you agree with the statement always, 3 if you agree but not always, 2 if
you agree sometimes and 1 if you don’t agree at all.
Statement 1 2 3 4

1. There is no substitute for concrete experience in ✓

learning
2. The focus of education should be the ideas that are as ✓
relevant today as when they were first conceived.
3. Teachers must not force their students to learn the ✓
subject matter if it does not interest them.
4. Schools must develop students’ capacity to reason by ✓
stressing on the humanities.
5. In the classroom, students must be encouraged to ✓
interact with one another to develop social virtues such
as cooperation and respect.
6. Students should read and analyze the Great Books, the ✓
creative works of history’s finest thinkers and writers.
7. Teachers must help students expand their knowledge ✓
by helping them apply their previous experiences in
solving new problems.
8. Out course of study should be general, not specialized; ✓
liberal, not vocational; humanistic, not technical.
9. There is no universal, inborn human nature. We are ✓
born and exist and then we ourselves freely determine
our essence.
10. Human beings are shaped by their environment. ✓
11. Schools should stress on the teaching of basic skills. ✓
12. Change of environment can change a person. ✓
13. Curriculum should emphasize on the traditional ✓
disciplines such as math, natural science, history,
grammar, literature.
14. Teacher cannot impose meaning; students make ✓
meaning of what they are taught.
15. Schools should help individuals accept responsibility for ✓
their thoughts, feelings and actions
16. Learners produce knowledge based on their ✓
experiences.

17. For the learner to acquire the basic skills, he/she must ✓
go through the rigor and discipline of serious study.

18. The teacher and the school head must prescribe what ✓
is most important for the students to learn.

19. The truth shines in an atmosphere of genuine dialogue ✓

20. A learner must be allowed to learn at his/her own pace. ✓
21. The learner is not a blank slate but brings past ✓
experiences and cultural factors to the learning situation

22. The classroom is not a place where teachers pour ✓

knowledge into empty minds of students

23. The learner must be taught how to communicate his ✓

ideas and feelings.

24. To understand he message from his/her students, the ✓

teacher must listen not only to what his/her students are
saying but also to what they are not saying.

25. An individual is what he/she chooses to become not ✓

dictated by his/her environment.

Interpreting your Scores: If you have 2 answers of 2/4 in numbers:

1.3.5.7 3, 2, 4, 4 you are more of progressivist

2,4,6,8 3, 4, 2, 4 you are more of a perennialist

9.15.20.25 3, 4, 4, 2 you are more of an existentialist

10, 12 3, 3 you are more of a behaviorist

11,13,17,18 4, 2, 2, 4 you are more of an essentialist

14,16,21,22 2, 3, 4, 3 you are more of a constructivist

19, 23, 24 4, 3, 4 you are more of a linguistic philosopher

Analysis:

● If you have 2 scores of 4 in several of the 7 clusters, you have an eclectic philosophy
which means you put the philosophies together
● If your scores are less than 4, this means that you are not very definite in your
philosophy
● If your scores are less than 3 in most of the items, this means your philosophy is quite
vague.

Result of the Interpretation of Scores:

I got several 4 in various clusters, which shows that I concur with the majority in the table. It
also means that I have an eclectic philosophy, which means that I combine several or all of the
ideologies, including constructivism, existentialism, behaviorism, progressivism, and
perennialism. I disagree with some of the ideas in the table, though. For instance, classroom
No. 22 is not a place where teachers saturate pupils’ intellectual voids with knowledge. Since
students are passive learners, it is well known that teachers’ primary responsibility is to convey
knowledge to their charges.