1. Idealism
and
Education

2. What comes into
your mind when you
hear the word
“Idealism”?

3. Pre-test
1. Who is the father of idealism?
a. Plato
b. John Dewey
c. Aristotle
d. Piaget

4. 2. For idealist, which of the following is the most
important concept?
a. Intellect
b. Aesthetic
c. Kinesthetic
d. None of these

5. 3. It is a philosophical doctrine which holds the
view that ideas are only the reality.
a. Pragmatism
b. Naturalism
c. Realism
d. Idealism

6. 4. Idealism is derived from the Latin word idealis
which means ____.
a. ‘to form
b. ‘to watch
c. ‘to see
d. ‘to be

7. 5. He was a Greek philosopher during the 3rd
Century BCE. HE was a student of Socrates and
a teacher of Aristotle
a. Rene Descartes
b. Plato
c. Immanuel Kant
d. Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

8. 5. There are how many areas in Idealism
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6

9. 6. He is considered as the inventor of
Philosophical Idealism.
a. Socrates
b. Plato
c. Berkeley
d. Immanuel Kant

10. 7. Idealists argue that _____ are the only true
reality.
a. Values
b. Sensation
c. Ideas
d. Feelings

11. 8. Which of the following idealism method refers
to a two-way exchange of ideas between the
teacher and the students?
a. Intuitive Approach
b. Dialectic Method
c. Lecture Method
d. Great books

12. 9. Who is/ are the originators of Idealism?
a. Plato
b. Socrates
c. Dewey
d. Piaget

13. 10. Which of the following is NOT considered as
an aim of Idealism in Education?
a. Search for the truth
b. Physical Development
c. Character development
d. Self-realization

14. Idealism and Education
A. Development of Idealism
a. Platonic Idealism
b. Religious Idealism
B. Development of Modern Idealism
C. Idealism as a Philosophy of
Education
D. Critique of Idealism in Education

15. Reality is created
by the mind, we can
change our reality by
changing our mind?
-Plato

16. IDEALIS
 Latin word
 ‘to form’
 Ideas are the only true
reality, the only thing worth
knowing

17. IDEALISM
 FOCUS: mind
 Originators:
 Plato – Greek
philosopher and a
disciple of Socrates

18.  Socrates – saw himself
as a gadfly who prodded
people into thinking

19. Platonic Idealism
The Divided Line
World of IDEAS
(forms)
Being: Intellect
World of MATTER
Becoming: Opinion
Has the Good as its
highest point
Ever-changing world of
sensory data
Source of all true
knowledge
Is not to be trusted

20. Platonic Idealism
The Divided Line
World of IDEAS
(forms)
Being: Intellect
World of MATTER
Becoming: Opinion
understanding
(mathematics)
conjecture (shadows)
knowledge/ science
(ideal forms)
belief (physical objects)

21. Platonic Idealism
People need, as much as possible,
to free themselves from a concern
with matter through the use of the
dialectic (or critical discussion), in
which one moves from mere
opinion to true knowledge.

22. Platonic Idealism
All thinking begins with a thesis, or
point of view.
Example:
 “War is evil”
 “War is good”
The dialectic looks at both sides of
an issue

23. Platonic Idealism
Allegory of the Cave

24. Platonic Idealism
Allegory – is a story that
stands/ represents
something

25. Religious Idealism
Augustine (354-430)
 Founder of the Roman
Catholic Church
 People do not create
knowledge

26. Religious Idealism
Augustine (354-430)
 God already has created it,
and people can discover it
through trying to find God

27. Religious Idealism
Augustine (354-430)
 Because the soul is the
closest thing people have to
divinity

28. Religious Idealism
Augustine (354-430)
 Augustine believed that we
should look within our souls
for the true knowledge that
exist there

29. Religious Idealism
Augustine (354-430)
 Augustine was a strong
supporter of the dialectical
method of learning to facilitate
discovering true ideas about
God and humanity

30. Platonic, Religion and
Idealism
Idealism Platonic Religious
Truth as
universal
good
Ideas are
the only true
reality
God as
universal
good

31. References:
 https://becomeawritertoday.com/allegory-of-the-cave-
summary/
 https://philosophynow.org/issues/90/Plato_A_Theory_of_
Forms
 https://study.com/academy/lesson/platos-tripartite-theory-
of-the-soul-definition-parts.html
 https:/www.gotquestions.org/idealism-definition.html
 https:adepratt.weebly.com/uploads/3/7/7/1/37716215/ide
alism_and_education_-_ozman_craver.pdf

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