Many people have expressed their concern about what the American educational system. Politicians throw money in an attempt to please their constituents. Recently, private schools and home schooling gained ground, figures and senior academic on average. But nobody I know has a look where we went wrong and when they are captured. But first a look when it is fine. Noah Webster once known as the director of the American educational system and author of the first American English dictionary 1828th Noah Webster could be one of the founding teachers. He was an educator himself, and has written numerous educational texts, such as Speller blue back, the beginning of the 19th Century, which had sold 80 million copies in 1899. Noah Webster said in his dictionary, that education is “to enlighten the understanding.” But I urge you all to complete the definition, which can be accessed on the Internet for research. There were others who contributed to the original philosophy of American education, namely: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Quakers, etc., etc.. Thomas Jefferson, that “young people should study history to be able to recognize tyranny in the bud and destroy it. These are the people responsible for the preparation of the original American philosophy to education, which was conducted were responsible.
Well, what went wrong? Who is responsible? Well, it was really a very fundamental change in philosophy. It all started at the turn of the century. He was) a new school of thought of germs Wuntian psychology of Germany (Wilhelm WUNT father of modern psychology. Materialist philosophy is finally and completely contrary to the original meaning of the word psychology – Study and teaching the human soul.
The new idea was that humans are not spiritual beings, but we were all animals and just the way you understand human behavior by comparing our animals. If you know how a rat can understand you behave behaved like a man. So, this philosophy has been implemented gradually in each university, beginning at the turn of the century. It was behaviorism, and the default philosophy was taught in colleges of 1960 for all teachers in training as a teacher. The philosophy of education was conditional and did not understand, had explained how Noah Webster. A date direct coincidence with the statistics of the failure of American education.