UNIVERSITY OF CEBU – LAPU-LAPU AND MANDAUE CAMPUS

A.C. Cortes Avenue, Looc, Mandaue City 6014, Cebu, Philippines

College of Teacher Education
PACUCOA Level III Accredited
A.Y. 2022-23, 1st Semester

Determine Your Educational Philosophy

Name: Juliana Niña C. Generalo

Schedule: 7:30-9:00a.m, TTH

INSTRUCTIONS:
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. Our course of study should be general, not specialized; liveral 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. ✓

 UNIVERSITY OF CEBU – LAPU-LAPU AND MANDAUE CAMPUS
A.C. Cortes Avenue, Looc, Mandaue City 6014, Cebu, Philippines
College of Teacher Education
PACUCOA Level III Accredited
A.Y. 2022-23, 1st Semester

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. Teachers cannot impose meaning; students make meaning of what ✓

they are taught.

15. Schools should help individuals accept themselves as unique ✓

individuals and 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 the 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.