PERENNIALISM

I do not need to tell you

Robert M. Hutchins January 17, 1899 Brooklyn, New York May 17, 1977 (aged 78) Santa Barbara, California Educator Maude Hutchins

what the public thinks about universities. You know as well as I, and you know as well as I that the public is wrong. The fact that popular misconceptions of the nature and purpose of universities originate in the fantastic misconduct of the universities themselves is not consoling.

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

PERENNIALIS M
Is an educational theory that is greatly influenced by the principles of realism. It has a conservative traditional view of human nature and education. Perennialist content that truth is univeral and unchanging, therefore, a good education is also universal and constant.

The perennialist have for their aim that education is of the rational person. The central aim of education should to develop the power of thought. They view the universal aim of education as the search for the dissemination of truth. They look up to the school as an institution designed to develop human intelligence.

The Perennialist view education is a recurring process based on the eternal truths. Thus, the schools curriculum should emphasize the recurrent themes of human life. It should contain cognitive subjects that cultivate rationality and the study of moral, aesthetic, and religious principles to develop the attitudinal dimension.

The perennialist prefer subjectmatter curriculum which includes history, language, mathematics, logic, literature, the humanities, and science. Robert Hutchins educational Philosophy is based on the premise that human nature is rational, and knowledge resides in the unchanging , absolute, and universal truth. He stressed that education must be universal

The curriculum of the Perennialist education would be subject-centered. The perennialist suggests that the best means to attain this enduring knowledge is through the study of the great books. The method of study would be the reading and discussion of these great works which, is turn, discipline and mind. The teacher accordingly must be one who has mastered discipline, guiding truth, and whose character is beyond reproach.

PERENNIALISM
PERENNIALIST believe that one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere. They believe that the most important topics develop a person. Since details of fact change constantly, these cannot be the most important. Therefore, one should teach principles, not facts. Some people are human, one should teach first about humans, not machines

since people are people first, and workers second it all, one should teach liberal topics first, not vocational topics. A particular strategy with modern perennialist is to teach scientific reasoning not facts. They may illustrate reasoning with original accounts of famous experiments. This gives the students a human side to the science, and shows the reasoning in action. Most importantly, it shows the uncertainly and false steps of real science.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PERENNIALISM

1. Permanence is more real than change 2. Human nature remain essentially the same no matter what the culture. 3. Moral principles remain essentially the same. 4. The GOOD LIFE the life that is fit for man / woman to live remains essentially the same. 5. Hence, the education that men reccine should essentially the same.

MAJOR EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF PERENNIALSIM

1. Truth is universal and does not depend on the circumstance of place, time, or person. 2. A good education involves a search for an understanding of the truth. 3. Truth can be found in the great work of civilization 4. Education is a liberal exercise that

APPLICATIONS TO TEACHING
1. Education should be the same for everyone. 2. Because man is basically the same, there is no need to sway material to the lowest student. 3. Because men are free and determine their own actions, children must be challenged and educators must expect reason from them. 4. Education implies teaching. Teaching implies knowledge. Knowledge is truth. The truth everywhere is the same. Hence, education should be everywhere the same. 5. The school should not function as the political or social aim of society. The school has one purpose

6. Education is not the only aspects of life it is the tool in which one prepares for life. 7. Basic subjects should and must be taught using the 3Rs to become more rational citizens. 8. Great emphasis to be placed upon the great classics.

This is a very conservative and inflexible Philosophy of Education. It is based on the view that reality comes from fundamental fixed truth especially related to God. It believes that people find truth through reasoning and revelation and that Goodness is found in rational thinking. As a result schools exist to teach reason and Gods will. Students are taught to reason through structured lessons and drills. RON KURTUS

Why teach?
We are all rational animals. Schools should therefore develop the students rational and moral powers. According to Aristotle, is we neglect the students reasoning skills, we deprive them of the ability to use their higher faculties to control their passions and appetites.

What to teach? The Perennialist curriculum is a universal one on the view that all human beings possess the same essential nature. It is heavy on the humanities, on general education. It is not a specialist curriculum but rather a general one. There is less emphasis on vocational and technical education. Philosopher Mortimer Adler claims that the Great Books of ancient and medieval as well as modern times are a repository of knowledge and wisdom, a tradition of culture which must initiate each generation. What a perennialist teachers each are lifted from the

How to teach?
The perennialist classrooms are centered around teachers. The teachers' do not allow the students interests or experiences to substantially dictate what they teach. They apply whatever creative techniques and other tried and true methods which are believed to be most conducive to disciplining the students minds Students engaged in Socratic dialogues, or mutual inquiry sessions to develop an

The teacher is a scholar, trained in the liberal arts, and the one who dominates the instruction in class. S/he teaches principles, not facts; humanity, not techniques, and; liberal education, not vocational courses. The teacher gives emphasis on the universal and recurrent themes of human life.

The teacher focuses on the personal development of every student by making them rational and developing their human intellectual potentiality. These can be done by using great and classic books and the laws or principles in science as the bases of knowledge.

Technology does not play a big role in a perennial education because it pays more attention in dialoguing, and studying great works and laws.

The classical texts, laws and principles are the universal knowledge of life that every person should know that is why education for everyone is the same. Todays trends are not perennial because education gives more depth on general education by reading and understanding the great work.

MY PERSONAL STATEMENT Our teaching Philosophy guided by those renowned Educational Philosophy helps in determining a teachers behavioral attitude, skills and concepts about his teaching motivation and personal inclination in teaching. As a future teacher, our attitudinal formation serves as a mirror and foundation of where stand either idealist, progressivist, essentialist, existentialist, behaviorist, constructivist or a perennialist. These philosophies are all good and functional because they possess positive characteristics which are unique from each other. Meaning they are all beneficial and significantly useful in the teaching-learning process. Perennialist concept have touched my interests to favor and believed in the salient points in it. As what Ive understood, although it is traditionally inspires hence it is a teacher-centered approach and the learning is centered around the way the teacher inflects and imparts feed-in knowledge into the learners but we can still use this concept in these modern times because the teacher acts as the real or actual visual aids who influenced a forceful, lively, and energetic atmosphere to the learners. The teacher should have a rational thinking meaning he is intellectually gifted with varied values, skills and knowledge to exercise and implement a lively teacher-learner interaction in the class. In addition, a morally endowed teacher is also an influenced to the learners by way of internalizing, modifying

MY REFLECTIONS

Perennialist philosophy have greatly

influenced me to use my rational ability and intellectual skills to apply varied methods and strategies to my learners distinct characteristics and being flexible to equip them with the appropriate learning styles that will harness their potentials and interest in learning. Since this is a teacher-centered approach in this new modern times, being a rational thinker adds greater effect, emphasis or retention to the learning process hence the teacher serves as the real visuals who influence a lively, forceful, and energetic atmosphere that will entice, inflict and motivates the whole crowd, who influence and ignites each learner to participate and perform