Intellectual Growth: The Perry Scheme

I believe Perry scheme is a great way to acknowledge the intellectual growth that just about everyone goes through in their life. Well known phycologist and Harvard professor William G Perry came up with this idea that college student tends to go through a predictable sequence of intellectual growth. This changes people’s view of their world and how aware they are of it. William G Perry noticed four major categories that he wanted people to understand in this specific order Dualism, Multiplicity, Relativism, and commitment to relativism. Now all four of these stages in Perry’s scheme occur on a day to day basis.

Dualism is the first stage of the Perry scheme, Dualism is the simple thought that one way is right and the other way is wrong. Dualism is basically the thought that authority shouldn’t be questioned and one should trust authority and that whatever the authority says is correct. An example of dualism would be when your parents tell you about Santa Claus and you are to believe in him, you don’t question if Santa Claus is real because your parents are telling you this and you are to trust …show more content…
The ability observe a situation by the evidence, logics, and patterns to validate various viewpoints. Evaluating various viewpoints gives you the idea that everything is not just right or wrong but there can be an in between to a number of real situations just depending on the circumstances. I can notice relativism when talking about religion or culture, just for the simple fact that people in different cultures have a different way thinking, behaving, and feeling as they learned from the previous generation. Now all these cultures or religions have their own source of evidence to support these claims on why they have these beliefs so you can’t say anybody is wrong or right there is just an in between to the