“On Education”: Reading Einstein’s Ideas about Education
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As Einstein’s ideas are suffused with deep insights and intuitions with lofty aspirations and ideals, simply reading his text “On Education” may reflect the readers’ personal biases and lack of understanding confirmation. The review of available works of literature has paved the way for the occurrence of the applied method of the study to make available confirmation before grasping idea components and allowed fruition of these following revealed ideas: 1) Einstein is certain that his ideas about education expressed as a speech given to the 300th university celebration occasion are reliable and convincing as that of those educational experts in the past; 2) Youth’s spirit can and should be instructed; 3) Motivating students should be done with care as it holds double sides of a sword; 4) The training of the mind is rather more important than that of language or science; and 5) General knowledge, not specialized fields, should be emphasized more. Also, such a result brings to light the applicability of the applied method from reading other difficult texts to the teaching of reading courses and evaluating readers’ understanding from the reading.
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