Education Management Resources

From the four (4) concerns in educations, make a reaction based on your experience citing at least one (1) situation in education set-up. 1. QUALITY AND EXCELLENCE             Quality of education is one of the major issue that the Philippine government should resolve but somehow it is recently improving. Few years ago, Philippine education has declined because of poor results from standard test conducted among elementary and secondary students, as well as tertiary level. The results were way below the target mean score. Factors that greatly affected the quality of education in our country were high drop-out rates, high number of repeaters, low passing grades, lack of particular language skills, failure to adequately respond and address the needs of people with special needs, overcrowded classrooms, and poor teacher performances. Because of this, quality of education in our country has been compromised. It is also very tr...

ETHICAL TEACHINGS IN HINDUISM Hinduism, major world  religion  originating on the Indian subcontinent and  comprising  several and varied systems of  philosophy , belief, and  ritual . Although the name Hinduism is relatively new, having been coined by British writers in the first decades of the 19th century, it refers to a rich  cumulative  tradition of texts and practices, some of which date to the 2nd millennium BCE or possibly earlier. If the  Indus valley civilization  (3rd–2nd millennium BCE) was the earliest source of these traditions, as some scholars hold, then Hinduism is the oldest living religion on Earth. Its many  sacred  texts in  Sanskrit  and  vernacular  languages served as a vehicle for spreading the religion to other parts of the world, though ritual and the visual and performing arts also played a significant role in its transmission. From about the 4th century...

St. Thomas Aquinas (AKA Thomas of Aquin or Aquino) (c. 1225 - 1274) was an Italian philosopher and theologian of the  Medieval  period. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology at the the peak of  Scholasticism  in Europe, and the founder of the  Thomistic  school of philosophy and theology. The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, but also Western philosophy in general. His most important and enduring works are the "Summa Theologica", in which he expounds his systematic theology of the "quinquae viae" (the five proofs of the existence of God), and the "Summa Contra Gentiles".             Aquinas was a Christian theologian, but he was also an  Aristotelian  and an  E...

To be a teacher in the context of this struggle was, for Augustine, an act of love. Indeed, he advised teachers to "Imitate the good, bear with the evil, love all" (1952, p. 87). This love was required, for he knew the hardships of study, and the active resistance of the young to learning. He also considered language to be as much a hindrance as a help to learning. The mind, he said, moves faster than the words the teacher utters, and the words do not adequately express what the teacher intends. Additionally, the student hears the words in his own way, and attends not only to the words, but also to the teacher's tone of voice and other nonverbal signs, thus often misunderstanding the meaning of the teacher. The teacher, thus, must welcome students' questions even when they interrupt his speech. He must listen to his students and converse with them, and question them on their motives as well as their understanding. He saw education as a process of posing problems an...

Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfil it ( Matt 5:17 ,  18 ). This means, on the one hand, that He endorsed it. This He did, first, by yielding to it an obedience that was unique. Not only in moral matters but also in its wider connotation, Jesus abode by the law ( Matt 17:27 ;  23:23 ;  Mark 14:12 ). Second, He endorsed its teaching, subsuming all under the twofold head of love to God and neighbour ( Matt 22:37-40 ). Ethical obligation, according to the Saviour's teachings, is enforced by the yet higher religious obligation. Our duties to men are really a part of our all-comprehensive duty to God. Why must I love my neighbour as myself? If it be placed on utilitarian grounds, meaning personal utility, then I ought to love my neighbour as myself because it will benefit me, that is, because I love myself better than my neighbour. If the utility consulted be general, then why ought I to care as much for the general good as for my own? We...

Plato, student of Socrates, also has mystery surrounding him. His birth day is estimated to fall between 428 BC and 423 BC. He’s known for being the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. My favorite of Plato’s contributions to philosophy, and the one I’m going to focus on, is the Theory of Forms. This theory was created to solve two problems, one of ethics and one of permanence and change. The ethical problem is: how can humans live a fulfilling life in an ever changing world if everything that they hold close to them can be easily taken away? The problem dealing with permanence and change is: How can the world appear to be both permanent and changing? The world we perceive through senses seems to be always changing–which is a pretty clear observation. The world that we perceive through the mind, seems to be permanent and unchanging. Which world perceived is more real? Why are we seen two different worlds? To find a solu...