Sunday, April 1, 2018

Philosophy of Education"Western And Eastern"



   Education in eastern philosophy branched into several outlets so it doesn’t depend on one achievement. Vedic is one of the eastern philosophy. His aim is to develop the force of nature and make its information more understandable. In Vedic period this aim was more about how to explain and teach people and how to have life and how they really achieve that.

   Eastern philosophy is seen that education is a way achieving wisdom by maintaining the family structure, providing for social and academic concerns. 

In philosophy, eastern suffering accepted part of life. According to Buda, we know the causes of suffering eliminate the desire may be more prepared to minimize this. So, it becomes my job to know how to relate suffering. In eastern, they teach their people to minimize to use of the senses. They believe it’s impossible for the people to keep their senses a work all the time since it could be harmful and make them stress in their society. Over the last few decades, eastern they use to gain knowledge and learn something by giving the lecturing and stories. Such as, they use to learn students religion and stories of Prophet Mohammad. Strictly speaking, middle eastern are in majority in belief in followers to Islam which entitled that God owns everything in his world. Far Eastern focuses on stable traditions, accept as true in a sense of responsibility, they have faith in an unbending class structure, they have robust family bonds, they have influential lineages devotion, and they have confidence in castigation of the body (Kritsonis, 2002). This oral trade they pass from general to another. To sum up, we should also indicate several aspects of the eastern system: 1) Corporate Welfare and Growth-oriented 2) Cooperation and Friendly Mergers 2) Family-owned, Long-term Stockholding 3) Conservative Reserves and Allowances 4) Gradual and Continuous Managerial Improvements (Chang, 2009). Moreover, Eastern education philosophy enforces several rules so students must follow to perfect their outcome. Thus the student is criticized when failure is admitted as an act to motivate the student forward. Thus students will have the ability to convert those comments into a power of self-improvement. While western thinker depends on the more practical, efficient, social and political system.

They prefer to increase in senses and they care too much about other people, they believed that they need to use this senses to be learned. They stay open-minded. Thus the western looks in the process at educational institutes to realize their objectives (Hassan, Zainal Abiddin, & Anuar, 2011). This actually leverages the students’ competency towards greatest goals. And here, we could also add the following aspects: 1) Corporate Control 2) Diffused, Transient, and Myopic Ownership 3) Financial Innovations and Breakthroughs (Chang, 2009). This would definitely in addition to many other aspects affect the view and the way of dealing with the philosophy of educational systems. To emphasize more, Aristotle and Socrates are western philosophers who regularly encourage rational thinking.  That is why students are stimulated to think and share their opinions when they are involved in the group discussion or when they are carrying out their assignment. This, in fact, build strong confidence in students so they don’t be afraid of their mistakes and this is because the western philosophy of education is treated any idea positively so one can learn from mistakes. From Ancient Greece, Western Philosophy is aligned with philosophical thinking.  For instance, Jainism advocates promised not to hurt any form of life (Kritsonis, 2002). Confucius assumed that only after meaningful the goalmouth of excellence where one would reside; one would have a certain determination. This, in fact, means that only after having certain tenacity in life can one attain peace of mind. Thus, only after having attained calmness of mind can one have serene relaxation, only after having peaceful relaxation can one begin to contemplate, and only after one has educated to reflect can reach true acquaintance (Kritsonis, 2002).  I believed in the education that gets the benefit of humanity and respects my religion. For example, on social media, the invention of Whatsapp that was made by western, could be used in a good way or in a negative way. The good way to it first, it facilitates the communication and students can get more knowledge from their instruction by making a group for the class also build a good relationship between the instructor and students. However, Whatsapp could be used just too waste time. People used it to provoke others or by sending something un-moral and ethical to our situations. Nowadays the invention of robotics is the most essential technology that leads to facilitate the communities between educators and the different number of societies. However some people they tend to use it in a way that destroys the bridges of social life as well that destroys the humanities. According to the previous example, the education could be used in a good way and it could be bad. Here I would like to echo the worlds of sheikh Al-Boty, the location of knowledge is the brain and it’s only the lights to distinguish between the straight paths from the curvature paths. The knowledge is like the light bulbs in front of the car only. However, the car needs some kind of force to propel it forward. So as humans in order to move forward, we need the love that is located inside our hearts. In general, the education even propels the humanities to the forward or repel it to the background. And the direction of light is the peoples’ decision, so how they react with the education they will go. No one can live without education because all the world cares to be an educated person and care to develop their self. This can be done by look and understand all the angle side of this world. 

   As a conclusion, Education exists to cause change for better in individuals, societies, countries and the whole world. Though there are different places, whether western or eastern and thus different cultures which in turn affect the way it shapes individuals.  Fortunately, the different ways of approaching the educational systems are intended to get the same outcome. While one stresses the active learning and the other passive learning, one gives space of freedom for student and get him/her involved and the other treat students as receivers and so on. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages. But, this report indicates the importance of merging the two philosophies and to be ready to accept any other changes from any other origin. Life is changing so fast than ever before and the educational systems must also get adapted to such changes.  Otherwise, both systems will fall behind the globalization dominance and wouldn’t work then anyway. We have to be honest and commit that there is something tremendously happening all over the world.




References:
1-Chang, S. J. (2009). When East and West Meet: An Essay on the Importance of Cultural Understanding in Global Business Practice and Education. Journal of International Business and Cultural Studies, 1-13.
2-Hassan, A., Zainal Abiddin, N., & Anuar, N. (2011, 7 31). Viewing the Philosophy of Education from the Perspectives of Different Schools of Thought. International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities, pp. Vol. 1, No. 2 (2011), pp. 55-64.
3-Kritsonis. W.A. (2002). Schooling. BookMasters, Inc.







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