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INTRODUCTION
The right kind of education is not concerned with any ideology, however much it
may promise a future utopia: it is not based on any system, however carefully thought
out, nor is it a means of conditioning the individual in some special manner. Education
in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love
and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child
according to some idealistic pattern. The highest function of education is to bring about
an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole.
SUMMARY
Those who are being educated have rather a difficult time with their parents, their
educators, and their fellow students: already the tide of struggle, anxiety, fear, and
competition has swept in. They must face a world that is overpopulated, with
undernourished people, a world of war, increasing terrorism, inefficient governments,
corruption, and the threat of poverty. This threat is less evident in affluent and well-
organized societies, but it is felt in those parts of the world where there is tremendous
poverty, overpopulation, and the indifference of inefficient rulers. This is the world the
young people must face, and naturally they are really frightened. They have an idea that
they should be free, independent of routine, should not be dominated by their elders;
and they shy away from all authority. Freedom to them means to choose what they want
to do; but they are confused, uncertain and want to be shown what they should do. The
student is caught between his own desire for freedom to do what he wants and society’s
demands for conformity to its own necessities, that people become engineers,
scientists, soldiers, or specialists of some kind. This is the world students have to face
and become a part of through their education. It is a frightening world. We all want
security physically as well as emotionally, and having this is becoming more and more
difficult and painful.
REFLECTION
The real issue is the quality of our mind-not its knowledge, but the depth of the
mind that meets knowledge. Mind is infinite, is the nature of the universe, which has its
own order, has its own immense energy. It is everlastingly free. The brain, as it is now,
is the slave of knowledge and so is limited, finite, fragmentary. When the brain frees
itself from its conditioning, then the brain is infinite. Then only is there no division
between the mind and the brain. Education then is freedom from conditioning, from the
vast accumulated knowledge of tradition. This does not deny the value of academic
disciplines, which have their own proper place in life.
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The role model teacher knows and understands the learners, how they
developed and learned. I know that learners actively construct and transform their own
knowledge, based on past experiences, and prior learning. I know that learners do not
all learn in the same way or at the same time. I believe it is my responsibility as a
teacher to be an effective diagnostician of the learners’ interests, abilities, and prior
knowledge. I must then plan learning experiences that will both challenge and allow
every learner to think and grow.
ACTION RESEARCH
Numeracy skills: Enhance Solving Basic Operations
VIII. REFERENCES
Numeracy skills of grade 7 students in Baguio city national high school. (2022). Retrieved from
https://www.dpublication.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/22-4022.pdf