History of Education and Purpose of Schools

History of Education and Purpose of Schools
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According to Kliebard, a Professor of education, learning the history of education is significant in daring educators to challenge the questions and assumptions that were bequeathed to us by our forbears ( Kliebard,2001). Further, he argues that the fundamental problem lies in getting past historical questions in the current education system and not getting the answers. Notably, he argues some ideas and activities conducted in the past might differ from the contemporary world and sound different altogether. Some of the questions that individuals opt to get past are;
First, what should be the goals that define a school's curriculum? He argues that the first goal of defining a curriculum is by teaching students the best way an educator kno...