IMPORTANCE OF A PHILOSOPHY FOR TEACHERS - ASCD
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cisely that which one gets through hav ing to enter into proper relations with others in a unity of work and thought." It is only during a poignant weighing of one's own or another's genuine emo tional perplexity that such an integra tion can take place.
I draw these thoughts, now, for ex ample, from a reflection on my own past involvements. When I began to teach, I lacked both practical experience and a dependable philosophy of education. I had already tried to read John Dewey and William James for a college course, but I only understood them dimly be cause my experience was not abreast of their ideas.
For my own practical guidance, I had only some illusory notions drawn from a primitive folklore based on force. The teacher must be a strong dominant fig ure, I thought, and he must have the strength, physical and otherwise, to maintain his control. And so I acted like a martinet, commanding obedience and anticipating trouble even where it did not exist. The pupils reacted to this treatment in a predictable human man ner. While they obeyed outwardly, they began to practice an underground re sistance exactly like that of my own callow youth. This eventually led to physical clashes with suspected leaders, which I won through superior strength and position.
The community, which of course had fostered my illusions, thought that I was a good disciplinarian. Yet looking back from my present experience and its an cillary philosophy, I would give a good deal if I could live those years over. I know, now, that had I been ? kindly, en couraging, helpful person, those fine pu pils would have loved me. In every case
of physical violence, I now see that I was tragically wrong.
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take an interest in ours; hence the stupidity and injustice of our opinions, so far as they deal with the significance of alien lives. Hence the falsity of our judgments, so far as they presume to decide in an absolute way on the value of other persons' condi tions or ideals.
That is James speaking out sixty-
seven years ago in his T
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