Naturalism to the 20th Century: a Reflection

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As to my personal observation, and which I presume is not new to everyone, it is an unending debate among educators as to what education process would be deemed the most effective. Also, in relation to this, is another unresolved issue which is the underlying factor in a student's behavior in learning. Some would say that a student is simply conceived as someone with difficulty of coping up while others would say that a student may not be interested in education because of some external factors, like peer influence, poor parenting and the like. This is where we would incorporate the concept of naturalism in educational process and perhaps the idea of education itself. Before anything else though, we define naturalism as a doctrine which strongly believes that a human is one who is incapable of any evil (naturally speaking) since goodness was impressed on him since birth or maybe even before birth. Man was only introduced to the idea of “badness” through his exposure to society, suffice it to say, his encounter with various human restrictions, rules made by man themselves which has the power to prevent people from exercising their free will of becoming who they were supposed to be. This is what naturalism has to say with regards to educational process, let a child be free of the constraints provided by human society. In this way he would be able to encounter the world as it is without the artificialities incorporated by other men thus, helping him develop his natural inclination towards something. Also according to this doctrine, parents have a very significant role in the education of a child wherein they should not put authority towards the child as he is naturally capable of knowing what should be and what should not be and to open for their child the doors of outside experience and let those experiences be the source of lessons for the child. In overview,
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