Kaleidoscope Chapter Summary

I believe that Damon’s concerns are valid. If students find a purpose, then they strive to succeed. I witnessed this personally with a friend of mine. He used to fail classes and skip class, but he joined band and found a passion in percussion. Once he realized that he could succeed in band but had to keep his grades up in order to play, he worked diligently to keep his grades up, eventually becoming an honor student. This example proves that purpose creates success among students. This purpose in school often becomes a career later, thus creating purposeful life in adulthood and devoted citizens within society.
3a. Chapter 40 of Kaleidoscope is written by Kenneth A. Strike. Within the chapter, Strike discusses the ethical factors that affect teaching. He …show more content…
The first factor he lists is that an ethical issue “concern[s] questions of right and wrong,” which entails “our duties and obligations [and] our rights and responsibilities” (Strike 1988/2013 p. 292). Second, Strike says that “ethical questions cannot by an appeal to facts alone,” (Strike 1988/2013 p. 292) which means that ethical questions are often based on personal opinions on what is moral or immoral. Last is that “ethical questions should be distinguished from values,” with “values concern[ing] what we like or what we believe to be good” and “ethics concern[ing] what we ought to do” (Strike 1988/2013 p. 293).
Strike has two principals for confronting ethical questions. The first is the principle of benefit maximization, which “holds that we should take that course of actions which will maximize the benefit sought” (Strike 1988/2013 p.