The Case for

Essentialism
BY: RAVEN SOUTHWARD
My Philosophy
of Education

I Believe
in teaching common
knowledge
Embedding
moral and
values
and practicality
and intellectual
knowledge to
be the model
citizen
By this I mean
Essentialism
Essentialists hope that when students
leave school, they will possess not only
basic skills and an extensive body of
knowledge? But, also disciplined, practical
minds, capable of applying schoolhouse
lessons in the real world.
- William Bagley

Sticking with the
foundation of
traditional
disciplines
math, natural science, history, foreign
language, and literature.
Teachers
Teach what is important
Students possess
Book sense and common sense

I base these
assumptions on
Engrave this Quote When will the public
cease to insult the teacher's calling with
empty flattery? When will men who would
never for a moment encourage their own
sons to enter the work of the public
schools cease to tell us that education is
the greatest and noblest of all human
callings?
- William Bagley

H. G. Rickover
Success teaches us nothing, only failure
teaches.
- H. G. Rickover
Theodore Sizer
The first object of any act of learning, over
and beyond the pleasure it may give, is
that it should serve us in the future.
Learning should not only take us
somewhere, it should allow us to go further
more easily.
-Theodore Sizer
Paul
Copperman
The Literacy Hoax
James D.
Koerner
The Miseducation of American Teachers
Essentialism