Kindless Philosophy

Adolescence and Youth identity Cognitive psychology considers the human adolescent period to be truly important. The human brain becomes stable after adolescence, but the synaptic network strengthens or dies depending on learning and experience. This process is called ‘pruning’. About half of the synapses formed in early childhood are pruned during adolescence. This highlights how important the influence of the environment is in the process of human development. It means, it would not be an exaggeration to say that education during adolescence determines almost everything about one's future life. From Aristotle's virtue theory, a happy human life lies in “unity of virtue and action.” Even adolescents can enjoy a happy life. This kind of happy life should be based on the harmony of purpose and means at that period.  ‘Education’; the flesh of the world “ou si tout rapport de moi à l'Être jusque dans la vision, jusque dans la parole, n'est pas un rapport charnel, avec la c...

The ‘Mixed Ability group’ focuses on discovering each student’s individuality, uniqueness, and potential. Of course, ‘potential’ must take into account an individual’s genetic limitations. However, in this ‘mixed ability grouping’, it can be maximized through equalization of environmental factors. And above all, the role of the teacher is important, and the role of the teacher in this grouping must take into account the principle of ‘equality’. This is because it cannot be concluded that students with low immediate achievement levels do not have potential.(Ibid., 9) This means the ‘principle of equality’ or ‘egalitarianism’ also means ‘equality of opportunity.’ Just because a country in the Western world has a Christian worldview, it obviously has no right to refuse entry to immigrants from the Islamic world or Eastern third countries. The Rationale “In this chapter we shall be concerned to articulate and comment on what we see as the central arguments used by teachers and others in ed...