LIBERALISM AND EDUCATION

LIBERALISM AND EDUCATION

1 .Liberalism, is a political philosophy or worldwide founded on ideas of liberty[freedom] and equality. Simply we say was just ideas established by capitalist based noon private ownership of major means of production.[equality and freedom]

During the period of liberalism two principles/branches were made, these are:

Social liberalism, this seeks to find the balance between individual liberties and social justice , e .g market economy, civil and political justice. While the other is classical liberalism, this advocates civil liberties and political freedom whit respective democracy under the rule of law.

Liberalism has great relationship in education, these are:

-Liberalism in education shows how education liberated man from system of being exploited by capitalist or high classes

-Equal participation between male and female

-Education liberated people from local beliefs  such as throwing twins and  killing of albinos

-Education is the  process of liberation  which man to be free from all kinds of limitations, education has to liberties man by making him more of human being because of becoming aware of his potential as human being thus enhances  relationship.

Generally education has liberated development, whereas development is of man for man therefore we should be similar for the purpose of education.

2 . Theory of social contract [By John Locke]

John Locke 1632-1704. The states of nature is a very different type of place and so his argument concern the social contract and the nature of man’s relationship to authority are consequently quite different, while Locke uses Hobbe’s methodological device of the state of nature, as do  virtually all  social contract theorists he uses it to quite different end.

Locke argument for the social contract and for the right of  citizens  to revolt against their king were enormously influential on the democratic revolution.

According to Locke,    the   state of nature. “ The nature condition of mankind is the state of perfect and complete liberty to conduct one’s life as one best sees fat from the interference of others” these does not however that it is a state of license  even anything that one’s judges to be in one’s interest. The state of nature that nocivil authority or government to push people for  transgressions against laws is not a state without morality .

Property  plays an essential role in Locke’s  arguments and the contract that  establishes , it is according to Locke  private property is created  when a person mixes  his  labour  with  the raw materials of nature , so when one’s tills a piece of  in nature and makes  it into a piece of farmland which produces food , then one  has claim down the piece of land  and the food  produced upon it.

According to Locke  thestate of nature as not a condition of  individual  as at for Hobbe’s . Rather it is populated by mothers and fathers  with their children’s  or families that we call “ conjugal  society”, these  societies are based on the voluntary arguments to care for  children together and they are moral but not political.

Locke did not  inverses the state of nature  as greatly as did Hobble’s  he can imagine condition  under which  one would be better of rejecting  a particular civil government  and returns  the state of nature  with their aims of constructing a better civil government in its place.

3.The  theory of social contract [By Jean Jacques Rousseau

The normative  social of contract argued for by Rousseau in the social contract  [1962]  is meant to respond to this  state of affairs and the renedy the social  and moral all that have been  produced by the development of the society . social contract begins with  the most quoted  line from Rousseau.\, man was  been free and he was everywhere  clan ,this clan  with the most of  quoted bridge the descriptive work of the second discourse and the prescriptive work that is to progress of  civilization  has subsisted substance to others far that freedom through dependence; economics and social inequality and the extent to which we judge  ourselves through  comparisons with others.

Rousseau socialcontract   theories together form a single consistent view of our moral  and political  situations for freedom and equality  by nature , but our nature has been corrupted by ours  contigentt  social history , we can overcome this corruption, however  by invoking as free will to reconstitute ourselves politically , along strongly democratic principles, which is good for  us both individually and collectively situation.

4 .The a theory of social contract [By John Rawls, 1972]

The theory state that  “ person have capacity  to reason  from a universal point of view,  which in turns means  that they have a particular moral capacity  of judging principles  from an impartial  standpoint”.

Rawls argued  that   the moral and political  point view  is discovered  via impartiality. He argued  that many  principle  are stated by various scholars  some of them are applicable in life , one can choose a principle for  the society  for their better  success  but the principle from perspectives should be necessary fair  to society.

5. Utilitarianism

Is the theory  in normative  ethics holding that the best moral actions  is the one that maximizes utility, according to  Mill, [1861] in installment in Fraser’s  magazines,  utilitarianism provide us with the criterion distinguishing  right and wrong.

The theory states that “Actions are right  in proportions  as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce  the reverse of the happiness”.

Or   because utilitarianism is a  form of  consequentialism, it states that “the consequences of any  actions are  the only standard  of right and wrong”.  This  view  can  be  contrasted/considered with  virtue ethics which holds virtue  moral goods, some believe that  one’s  intentions are also ethically  important.  But some have criticized this theory  by reasoning that it is just  impractical.