General Pedagogy: Most Learning Happens Outside School
What education is, how the teacher-learner bond works, where people really learn, and how constructivist and experiential ideas reshaped teaching for every age.
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1. The word 'education' is linked to two Latin verbs. What does one of them, educere, mean?
- To lead out or draw forth
- To bind someone to rules
- To fill up with knowledge
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Answer: To lead out or draw forth
Educere means to lead out, suggesting education draws out a person's capacities; the related educare means to rear or nourish.
2. Johann Friedrich Herbart spoke of 'educative instruction'. What did he mean?
- Teaching that also forms moral character
- Instruction limited to useful facts
- Lessons given only by parents at home
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Answer: Teaching that also forms moral character
For Herbart, instruction should not just inform but shape a person's interests, will and moral character; otherwise it is not truly educative.
3. Herbart made 'educability' (Bildsamkeit) a founding concept of pedagogy. What does it mean?
- A child's measured IQ score
- Human openness to being formed
- A school's capacity to enroll pupils
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Answer: Human openness to being formed
Educability is the basic assumption that people are not fixed by nature but can be shaped by education, which makes pedagogy possible.
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