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This 3 page paper examines John Locke's well known work on education. Locke's ideas are used as a springboard for discussion on the state of the schools today. Suggestions on how to change things are included. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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that is flawed. He writes: "When I consider what a-do is made about a little Latin and Greek, how many years are spent in it, and what a noise and
business it makes to no purpose, I can hardly forbear thinking that the parents of children still live in fear of the school-masters rod, which they look on as the
only instrument of education..." (Locke, 1693). The author goes on regarding the ridiculous nature of the school set up and at the end of the essay explains that breeding comes
first, and learning will follow (Locke, 1693). One may apply Lockes ideas with the problem with schools today. In the twenty-first century, with no tolerance policies, children go to school
only to receive firm discipline. Children are suspended from school for seemingly small violations. The administrators claim that they must do something to keep order in the classroom and when
children or parents protest any rules, they simply ask why the student cannot follow them. The problem with schools is that they are not conducive to learning. Locke (1693) talks
about building a foundation for students and in some way, one can surmise that the foundation is suitable for learning. It might in fact prompt motivation. Yet, while Lockes ideas
seem pertinent in todays world where education seems to be nothing more than discipline and learning things which do not matter in the real world, one has to examine Lockes
own motivation. It should be noted that the primary purpose of Lockes education to virtue is to prompt the formation of "reasonable" men as well as the power of
the father to educate (Carrig, 2001). The purpose then of education is pedagogical and political (Carrig, 2001). It is also to teach children how to think and how to reason,
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