Identify Your Philosophy of Education识别你的教育哲学Each of us has a philosophy of education, or a set of fundamental beliefs regarding how we think schools should be run. What is your philosophy of education? To find out, read each of the following statements about the nature of education. Decide whether you agree or disagree with each statement. Use the following numbers to express your response:我们每个人都有关于教育哲学或是一套关于学校应如何管理想法的基本信念，你的教育哲学是什么？要找出答案，请阅读下文关于教育观点的陈述，如下每一个陈述，用下列数字表达你的回答：_____ 1. The curriculum of the schools should be subject centered. In particular, student learning should be centered around basic subjects such as reading, writing, history, math, and science.学校的课程应以学科为中心，确切地说学生的学习应被视为中心围绕基本课程开展，如：阅读、写作、历史、数学、和科学。
_____ 2. The curriculum of the schools should focus on the great thinkers of the past.学校的课程应着重于历史上伟大的思想家。
_____ 3. Many students learn best by engaging in real-world activities rather than reading.很多学生在从事现实社会活动中学到最好的东西而不是在书本中。
_____ 4. The students should be permitted to determine their own curriculum.学生应被允许决定他们自己的课程。
_____ 5. Material is taught effectively when it is broken down into small parts.当教学内容被分成很小的部分时教起来是有效的。
_____ 6. The curriculum should place multidisciplinary analysis and action regarding social problems and themes from social life at the heart of students’ school experience.课程应是一个多学科分析和作用的地方，这些问题和论题是来自社会生活在学生内心深处的学校经历。
_____ 7. The curriculum of a school should be determined by information that is essential for all students to know.学校课程应由知识决定，这些知识就是基本的所有学生都应知道的。
_____ 8. Schools, above all, should develop students' abilities to think deeply, analytically, and creatively; this is more important than developing their social skills or providing them with a useful body of knowledge about our ever-changing world.学校最重要的应深入思考发展学生的能力：分析能力、创造能力，这笔发展他们的社会技能或提供给他们有用的关于我们曾经改变世界的大量知识更重要。
_____ 9. Schools should prepare students for analyzing and solving the types of problems they will face outside the classroom.学校应使学生有准备为分析和解决他们将在学校外面面临的问题类型。
_____ 10. Reality is determined by each individual's perceptions. There is no objective and universal reality.真理是由个体的理解决定的，没有客观和普遍的真实。
_____11. People are shaped much more by their environment than by their genetic dispositions or the exercise of their free will.人们更多的是被环境塑造，而不是它们的遗传特性或按照他们意愿的训练。
_____12. Schools should engage students in the analysis of major institutions and social issues so that social problems, causes, and ways to respond could be identified.学校应使学生从事于在分析主要的制度和社会论点，这样对于社会问题、原因和方法的回应将被确定认。
_____13. Students should not be promoted from one grade to the next until they have read and mastered certain key material.如果学生没有学习和掌握某些关键的内容，他们不能从一个年级升到下一个年级。
_____14. An effective education is not aimed at the immediate needs of the students or society.一个有效的教育不是针对学生或社会目前的需要。
_____15. The curriculum of a school should be built around the personal experiences and needs of the students.学校课程应围绕个人的体验和学生的需要而设立。
_____16. Students who do not want to study much should not be required to do so.学生不应该去学大量的不必需的东西。
_____17. Programmed learning is an effective method of teaching information.一循序渐进自学的教育方式是一个有效地教授知识的方法。
_____18. School curriculum should emphasize the common good over that of the individual.学校课程应强调共同的利益超过个体的利益。
_____19. Academic rigor is an essential component of education.理论上的严谨是教育的基本要素。
_____20. All students, regardless of ability, should study more or less the same curriculum.所有学生，不论能力，将学习或多或少同样的课程。
_____21. Art classes should focus primarily on individual expression and creativity.艺术课应集中到个体的表达和创造上。
_____22. Effective learning is unstructured and informal.有效的学习施肥结构和非正规的。
_____23. Students learn best through reinforcement.学生学习最好通过强化。
_____24. Students learn more outside the classroom than in.学生在课堂以外比在课堂内获得的更多。
_____25. Effective schools assign a substantial amount of homework.有效的学校安排充实数量的家庭作业。
_____26. Education should focus on the discussion of questions such as "What is beauty?" or "What is truth?"教育应集中讨论的问题例如什么是美丽？或什么是真理？_____27. Since students learn effectively through social interaction, schools should plan for substantial social interaction in their curricula.由于通过社会互动学生有效地学习，学校应在他们的课程中安排充实的社会互动。
_____28. The purpose of school is to help students understand and find the meaning of their existence.学校的主要目的是帮助学生理解和发现它们存在的意义。
_____29. Frequent objective testing is the best way to determine what students know.频繁的目标测试是决定学生知道什么的最佳途径。
_____30. Students need to have experiences which develop their desire and capacity to respond to social needs.学生需要已有的发展他们的愿望和能力的经验去回应社会的需要（对社会需要作出反应）。