Aristotle, Eisner, and Me: a Comparison

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Aristotle, Eisner, and Me: a Comparison

Aristotle believed that people should be educated and trained in line with their ambitions and aspirations for their ultimate place in life. Together with today’s communitarians, he insisted that moral life grows out of the practices of our communities and the demands that they make on us. At times, a community’s needs and welfare can and should be considered more vital than the needs of individuals. In this context a good citizen, student or employee, therefore, has an obligation to contribute to the welfare, development and growth of the institutions they interact within as much as they too demand that the schools benefit and protect their rights and needs as individuals. Aristotle’s ideologies and concepts on morality created a foundation which to this day is still applied particularly within the education institutions.

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He advocated that children be trained in appropriate modes of conduct and skills immorally. Aristotle believed that communities, in this case, the schools and other institutions of education had a responsibility to emphasize and instill positive values in the children within the schools and the community as a whole. The methods he proposed for this to be achieved involved having the students involved in supervised activities whose purpose and intent was to develop skills and create a platform for the virtues to be practiced and developed. The activities they would be involved in would teach them about morality by creating a situation where they would be required to respond or make a choice based ethics between several options all based on the attributes instilled in them from birth either by their communities or by their guardians. The final result of the practice was to build a foundation within each participant that would ensure that future reasoning would be safely conducted through proper analysis of moral issues surrounding the….Show More Content….

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