ut in place to regurgitate the wisdom of the past and pass it down to the next generation.To begin with, I find this philosophy extremely outdated since church and state have been separated for quite some time now. Perenialism leaves no room for progression, which seems to be its objective. Students in these schools do not learn to think independently. They do not learn creativity or how to problem solve. They learn to memorize and very little else. The largest problem with this philosophy is that children do not learn the importance of learning, how to learn, or to love and enjoy learning. This philosophy may teach children to read, write, and do arithmetic, but it will also teach them to detest school and dislike learning. To correspond these complaints specifically to literacy learning, students will only learn how to read and how to write. They will not know why to read or write. Nor will they learn what to read or write. Like said above, they will not learn to love the creativity of writing nor the excitement of reading.Behaviorism is the idea that behavior is learned and because of that all behavior can be unlearned and new behaviors learned in its place. Behaviorism views development as a continuos process in which children play a relatively passive role. Behaviorists assume that the only things that are real are the things we can see and observe. We cannot see the mind, but we can see how people act, react and behave. What people do, not what they think or real, is the object of study. Behavior is the essence of a person.I do not so much disagree with the general ideas of this theory. Behavior does impact learning and much can be learned about a child through their behavior. Also, behaviorism has developed many excellent means of discipline and classroom management. However, the behavior is not the child. I feel that a behavior is merely a cause of something else that is occurring within the child. It does no...
