Attacking Faulty Reasoning

Education should aim to emphasis the freedom of the learner to explore different ways of developing their uniqueness and lead them to a greater understanding of themselves. In my personal philosophy of education, I believe that an individual should be learning in all aspects of life and therefore education should aim to provide direction for them to think critical and have self-knowledge. I believe that if individuals are equipped with the type of knowledge which allows them to think about…

Statement of Purpose “How do we ask the turtle to trace out a circle? Remember, it only knows how to walk in straight lines and turn around.” Playing with the Logo turtle on screen in sixth grade was my first exposure to computer science. I was immediately fascinated by the idea of approximating a smooth circle with a regular polygon of, say, 360 sides. Staring at the “circle” on screen, I could not quite digest the fact that it was something produced in a fundamentally different way compared to…

According to Marlys Mayfield, Observation means to take time to pay attention to an object or an event. When one observes an object, they will know that they are staying awake and carefully attentive. Mayfield says that using one 's observation skills can strengthen one 's thinking process and create new knowledge in the brain. The observation process works by sensing, perceiving, and thinking. When one forms information in advance before they fully experience or understand, they are sensing.…

The article under analysis is "Critical Thinking? You Need Knowledge" by author Diane Ravitch. Ravitch presents the idea that for people need to learn to value knowledge as it's required to think critically and it's an important aspect for people to have. I, as a reader and critique, agree with her point that to further grasp anything we must learn about it first. Ravitch's Idea that "Thinking critically involves comparing and contrasting and synthesizing what one has learned." (Ravitch 230) is…

Community Project The assignment I was assigned was to do a community project for my community or anywhere that needed some significant help. What I choose was to pick a park near my home in Stockton which is called Panella Park. This was an ideal place because, everyone enjoyed the park when I was a kid, however no one really comes by anymore because of the increase of technology. With this I decided that I wanted to pick up the trash that laid there because of how much fun I had when I was…

As humans, we are always reacting to someone else’s actions. The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel. M Wenger and Blink by Malcom Gladwell the books talked about a person’s psychological thinking and how we interact with other people’s actions. These books shine a light on why we act a certain way while thinking. The books also gave me a different perspective about we interact with each other. There were many concepts that were introduced in these books like unconscious will, priming, and…

The Saint Mary’s seminar classes are so unlike traditional teacher-centered learning. The Western Tradition II focuses on three learning goals; shared inquiry, critical thinking, and written and oral communication. These three learning goals really help students explore the Western Tradition by examine the themes written by the authors we discussed. De Las Casas, Rene Descartes, and Voltaire really influenced the way I thought about how our culture started and the major flaws we stay face today…

Throughout the course, I learned different aspects of project management, and skills that can be used in the everyday life as long as involve interacting with other people. In this class I learned about how to be a better team member. This semester I was reminded of how important communication is and how people need to keep emphasizing it as one of the most important skills any person could possesses. The personality test was useful, I think it gave all of us a good way to start to see how…

Piaget Sensorimotor stage First stage of cognitive development in which schemes are based on perception. This stage begins at birth. Children can only focus on things that are right in front of them. Simple reflexes are an example of an involuntary action that happens without much thought process. During this stage infants learn they can repeat movements over and over, such as bringing their hand to their face and back down repeatedly. Make a sensory board with many items. These items can…

Transcendentalism in The Scarlet Letter People every day are given the bountiful task of having to discern the perfections or flaws of a person’s being. Variations of personalities chose to put more emphasis on one attribute over the other. Belief systems or religions follow the same guidelines. For example, Puritanism and Transcendentalism are diverse forms of one population’s viewpoints. Nathaniel Hawthorne was raised in a Puritan home but married and converted to Transcendentalism. Nathaniel…