{"id":2052,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/to-what-extent-should-a-teacher-be-a-figure-of-authority\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"to-what-extent-should-a-teacher-be-a-figure-of-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/to-what-extent-should-a-teacher-be-a-figure-of-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"To What Extent Should a Teacher Be a Figure of Authority?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the purpose of education?<br \/>\nHow can we define the role of a teacher?<br \/>\nBy what method can a teacher fulfil the requirements of education? <\/p>\n<p>Philosophical theories have provided answers for these questions over time but to what extent can we implement them in the reality of our time, taking into account the needs of our society? <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to assess the problems and possibilities of theories, specifically looking at Rousseau, Hobbes and Steiner. These are however mere ideologies which create problems when the reality of government policies and education are taken into account.   <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I hope we will see is our exams are once again trusted across the globe and our children are among the best in the world.&#8221;  (Michael Gove, Education Secretary). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy answer is: abolish authority. Let the child be himself. Don\u2019t push him around. Don\u2019t teach him. Don\u2019t lecture him. Don\u2019t elevate him. Don\u2019t force him to do anything\u201d  (A. S. Neil)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Willcocks, 2013, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,128],"tags":[256,151,185],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-authority","tag-education","tag-rousseau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}