eved that students will be motivated to learn a subject if it is something they need and want to know. The perspective of this philosophy is that the goal of education should be to foster students desire to learn and teach them how to learn. The humanistic teacher is opposed to objective tests because they test a students ability to memorize and do not provide sufficient educational feedback. They believe in self-evaluation and feel that grades are irrelevant. Grading encourages students to work for a grade and not personal satisfaction.I most identify with this philosophy and strongly agree with the majority of its principles. As stated above, the most important lesson a teacher can teach a child is the importance of learning, the enjoyment of learning and how to learn. Above all, this is the most important lesson. I agree that students are self-motivated if the desire to know something. The job of the teacher is to make the student want to learn, not make the student learn. I agree that self-evaluation and self satisfaction should weigh above grades. Grades should be a measure more for the teacher, not the student. The humanistic philosophy can be effectively applied to literacy mainly with its ideas of choice and desire. Students will be more inclined to write to their best ability and read at a high level if they are the ones choosing the topic to write on or the book to be reading. Humanism parallels with my strongest conviction of teacher and once again I will repeat what I have repeated throughout this entire paper. The goal of literacy learning is to instill a love of reading and writing within them and to give them the tools to continue with that love. ...
