Research-Reaction-Reflection paper on Historical Foundation of Education

	Person1	Person 2	Person 3
Name	Plato	Soren Aabye Kierkegaard	Hans Joachim Morgenthau
Time/Place	Middle Ages (Medieval)	1813-1855, Copenhagen, Denmark	1904-1980 Germany   (Modern Age)
Characteristics of the time period:	1.   Selective public education 2.   Elementary education 3.   2 years of compulsory military training 4.   Higher education for the best students	5.   Uniqueness and isolations of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe. 6.   Regards human existence as unexplainable 7.   Stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s act. 8.   Single individual, giving priority ot concrete human reality.	1.  Education For All 2.  Functional Jurisprudence 3.  Realism, concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical interest. 4.  Importance of national interest. 5.  Moral significance of political action.
Cultural beliefs about education:	1.   Only the suitably gifted are to be trained by the state 2.   Elementary education would be confined to the guardian class till the age of 18. 3.   Only the best students could take an advanced course 4.   First course in the scheme of higher education would last for 10 years only for those who had a flair for science. 5.   At the age of 30, another selection for those who qualified to study metaphysics, logic and philosophy for the next 5 years. 6.   After accepting junior positions in the army for 15 years, a man would have completed his theoretical and practical education by the age of 50.	Single individual, giving priority to concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. Exploration of emotions and feelings of individuals where given emphasis when faced with life choices.
Who received an education?	1.   Only the suitably gifted 2.   Castes, the highest receiving the most education 3.   Only the best students can acquire higher education.	Single Individual	Education For All
What were the prevailing attitudes towards children?	1.   Hardworking 2.   Love for study or wisdom 3.   Courageous to act according to wisdom	1.   Religious 2.   Individualism 3.   Faithful to God 4.   Respectful	1.   High-morality 2.   Conservative 3.   Respectful 4.   Hospitable 5.   Love for wisdom 6.
What was the person’s contribution to the field of education?	He helped to lay the foundation of Western philosophy and Science.	He was the father of existentialism, one of the educational philosophies that gives emphasis on the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience as unexplainable and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one’s acts.	He was considered as one of the founding fathers of realist school in the 20th century. He was one also of the leading 20th century figures in the study of international politics.
How was the person a reflection of his or her times?	He was one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. He was an instrument of a continuous research and studies of philosophy and science. He was the legend hero in the field of philosophy and science.	He was the legend of the existentialism, an educational philosophy that was being extracted as one of the components in formulating and promulgating the concept of progressivism, which is the individual exploration of experiences and individual field of interest or choice.	He was one of the legendary figures in the world of politics. He was the author of the Six Principles of Political Realism that has now become the basis of our political scenarios nowadays. The realist school holds that nation-states are the main actors in international relations and that the main concern of the fields is the study of power.
How did the person change education for future generations?	Through him, galloping changes in the field of medicine, law, theology, physical science, logic aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics, cosmology, ontology, epistemology and others have been developed and thorough research and studies of these fields were being conducted to apply with the present situations.	Through his discovery in existentialism in the parlance of educational philosophy, various studies, experiments and researches were being conducted and lots of educational philosophies came out in order to arrive the most appropriate most effective and most efficient methods, ways or strategies of teaching or even curriculum at present.	Through his studies in international politics, political power has great dominating factors in the educational system or curriculum nowadays.

HISTORICAL SCENARIOS OF EDUCATION

                                               ( My conclusions)

To fully understand the deep and true meaning of education precisely to the present setting and educational system, we need to scrutinize and study the evolution of the philosophy of education. We must know how they gave or valued education before. How did it affect to their lives? Did it influence to the society or to the universe in general? How did it transcend to the present generations?

                Education has ever been indispensable to all mankind. It was then treated and the most essential part of their lives because this would give them the great opportunity to rule their countrymen. Education for them before was power and prestige. There was even discrimination in attaining education before. Only the elite people were then being prioritized or being provided with the highest receiving the most education the students who were intellectually gifted had flair for science can only get education. Highly educated people were then considered as the most influential being in the society.

                As generation passes by, the system of attaining education has totally changed. At this point, education is being offered and provided for all regardless of his or her economic status in life. Constant research and studies have been conducted to attest the validity and the effectively of the previous theories of the educational philosophies. They continually search for the most effective and efficient philosophy in the parlance of education thus defining education as a continuous process of learning. A learning that would change the perception and lives of the people, increase knowledge, or even changes behavior in measurable manner as a determining factor of an experience.

                All of these transforming changes of the educational system and curriculum are strong manifestation of the perpetuating existing power structure and the evolution according to the context and needs of the time period. Finally, educational system or curriculum evolves to the present context and needs as well as to the present structure of existing power in our society.