Idealism in Teaching & Learning

Idealism holds that morale and spirituality should be incorporated within learning contents and experiences of the students. This is rooted in the belief that religion is the way to a better life and people who are morally and spiritually upright are not likely to commit any wrong.

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Morality is what is right and what is wrong in the society. Unfortunately, morality is relative. What may be right for me may not be right for other people and what may be wrong for me may be acceptable for others.

Be that the case as it may, morality should still be taught in the classroom to maintain status quo because, as an idealistic belief, changes are chaotic and radical ideas are unacceptable. Proper conduct in a society should be learned for someone to be able to fit in.

This led to the incorporation of VALUES EDUCATION and PEACE EDUCATION in our curricula. Also, this philosophy made its way to our daily routines -- we pray before we start the day and to our classroom designs -- we have the SPIRITUAL CORNER.

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Spirituality is the belief and the obedience to a supernaturally good deity. In the Philippine setting, teaching religion is highly argued upon due to our diverse religious beliefs.

The Philippines has very many religious groups teaching as many different doctrines as they are. This leads to the modification of CATECHISM as a subject to CHRISTIAN LIVING to generalize the idea. Though many could agree with this idea, the Philippines is not totally Christian. A percentage of its constituents is Islam.

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Idealism promotes the study of the Classics since, according to this principle, curricula and scholastic instructions are and must be constant, unchanged. For the idealist, knowledge comes from the external ideas and universal truths found in the arts.

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IDEALISM: status quo, social decorum, social restrictions, morality, spirituality, consciousness, eternal life, life after death, purpose of life, etc.