Knowledge management

Humanistic teachers believe that language learners should be motivated and provoked to choose what they need and want to know and learn. 2. They must be able to develop a craving and thirst for knowledge and their learning should be autonomous or independent. 3. Humanistic educators believe that grades are irrelevant because grading encourages learners to work for a position or grade not for learning or personal satisfaction. The only form of meaningful…

acquiring a new knowledge or skill. Humans learn many things during their existence, mostly, as a student one has to learn a lot of things at school. Therefore, learning plays a vital role for the students. Most students find it difficult to the knowledge of what was thought in the class which results in poor grades. So, what if the students find an interesting way of learning. Hence, the effective way of learning among the students has to be determined so that they can gain the knowledge…

goes on to give a definition of recollection, that states that true knowledge is found in the eternal forms that exists outside of perceptible reality. Socrates insists that the process of recollection works in a way that if you see a “lyre” or an article of clothing of a beloved, you will immediately be reminded of whose lyre or clothing it belongs to. Socrates believes that the only true knowledge that we can have is knowledge of the forms. If we know Equality, Good, Beauty and the other forms…

experienced more anxiety than child psychiatric patients in the 1950’s. There is even more pressure put on students now than in the 1980’s, Schools have slipped from the teacher having the ability to control their teaching and a student thirst for knowledge to allowing standardized tests control how the teachers teach and the students learn. Teachers no longer are given creative license to teach their way, but now have to teach to the standardized tests like the ACT and SAT in an effort…

In Class Lesson #2 Through teaching my two whole group comprehension lessons, I believe that I have gained a better understanding as to what the reality of being a teacher is like. I believe that as a teacher, I have devoted myself to lifelong learning and through completion of my first comprehension lesson, I designed and taught a second comprehension lesson that was built completely upon prior learning. With that being said, throughout this experience, I have come across many strengths and…

scholars have exalted Aristotle because of his various contributions to topics and debates that seem to have withstood time until the early Renaissance period. Petrarch acknowledged Aristotle’s importance, but viewed him as only human and deferred true knowledge to God. Montaigne had similar feelings, describing humans as simple creatures, backing up his propositions with various anecdotal experiences. In their works, Petrarch and Montaigne regret man’s shortcoming in glorifying human…

There is a saying: “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” This means that people lack the ability to form judgments without using their own personal beliefs and experiences. Therefore, people have a difficult time fitting into an environment that has a set of beliefs that differ from their own. This is revealed in the two short stories “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In “Young Goodman Brown,” Young Goodman Brown learns some…

Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave; The Analysis Of The Tamil Caste System More than twenty-five centuries ago, a Greek philosopher named Plato introduces his idea; The Allegory Of The Cave with the intention of explaining to many societies that they are often trapped in lies as they are nurtured. As understood, the concept demonstrates how humanity is imprisoned by chains, averting their visual direction to the objects' shadows which are illuminated by fire. They have been secluded from the…

Stories of escaped prisoners usually do not elicit an excited response. Yet when philosophers mention Plato’s Cave Allegory, the freed prisoner becomes something to be seen as good. This story Plato tells has become a foundation for many later forms of philosophy. It has actually been so influential that it impacts the arcs of books, movies, and all types of pop culture. So what makes Plato’s Allegory of the Cave so impactful? It isn't in the story itself, but what philosophical principles he is…

Think of your character as a jewel that has about a thousand different facets. If you keep turning them over and exploring new sides, you’ll keep discovering new information about their personality and motivations. And there’s always another way to turn things. There’s always another side to explore. — Lauren Sapala The Giver is a dystopian novel that follows the boy Jonas throughout his journey to find the truth. He comes to find that the community has taken away anything that would make it…