Output Number 3

An Exercise to Determine Your Educational Philosophy

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; 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. School should help individuals accept themselves as unique individuals and accept___ ___ ✔ ___

responsibility for their thought, feelings and actions.

16. Learners produce knowledge based on their experiences. ___ ___ ___ ✔

17. For the learner to acquire the basic skills, s/he must go through the rigor and ___ ___ ___ ✔

discipline of serious study.

18. The teacher and the school head must prescribe what is important for the ___ ___ ✔ ___

students to learn.

19. The truth shines in an atmosphere of genuine dialogue. ___ ___ ✔ ___

20. A learner must be allowed to learn 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. ___ ___ ___ ✔
Interpreting your Scores: If you have 2 answers of 2/4 in numbers:

1,3,5,7 __________ you are more of progressivist

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

9,15,20,25 __________ you are more of an existentialist

10,12 __________ you are more of a behaviorist

11,13,17,18 __________ you are more an essentialist

14,16,21,22 __________ you are more of a constructivist

19,23,24 __________ you are more of a linguistic philosopher

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, which means that you are not very definite in your
philosophy. Or if your scores are less than 3 in most of the items, this means your philosophy is quite vague.

Judaya, Leslie B. EDUC 11 (MWF/2:00-3:00)

BSED IV Fllipino Mrs. Adelina P. Semblante