Thursday, April 16, 2015

Why PoE ?

I say , why not PoE? What else if not PoE?

Oscar Wilde once said that nothing worth learning can ever be taught. One may pass it off as too radical an idea questioning the very basis of 'school' but it's not without a reason, I understand. How many of us are individuals because of the school we attended ? I guess the answer would be unanimously "All of us" . Not many of us would recollect the syllabi from then least of all marks in various subjects unless someone has a pleasant memory of being felicitated because of it. Even if it was felicitation due to marks , was it the medal and the applause or the marks per se' that one remembers ? We all are the 'decisions that we took back then' and also the decisions that we didn't take'.

The way one views the world and her understanding of it ultimately affects the decision making process with all the consequences therein. One wonders if Marx would have come up with Communist Manifesto if he was a church goer or Galileo had questioned the idea of celestial make up had he understood knowledge to be 'belief only'.
It leaves little to imagination then that methaphysical views directly impacts epistemic ones.Taking knowledge as 'revelation' , 'given' et al. It's extremely important for all individuals then most of all educators to engage in philosophical discourse given 'guruji ne kaha hai' culture which exists all around , and if I were to generalize all over the world.
The idea of education can differentiate the laboratory school of John Dewey from that of ,say Sainik school(in case of India).

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