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Two Types of Teaching

John Wilson

In the “ two types of teaching” by John Wilson, he said that education does not dictate to the
society: society dictates to the education. In this sentence there arises a debate that how he can
say this while education is the one who created the society and all the humans working in this
ecosystem are here after learning something and whether if it is an academic learning on any
other it is education at the end. Some of the time one individual would embrace multiple, even
all, of the above perspectives, contingent upon the circumstance or minute. At times radicals just
contended the standards among themselves. Be that as it may, there were noisy voices for all of
these thoughts, just as numerous in the middle of and past.

The demands aren’t rationalized it’s just the fact that the world is progressing day by day and it’s
better if people stud what’s going on in the World. They have a complete right to choose the
subjects, but some people who opt science for both reasons that are, first, they have an interest in
it and they like to study that and the second that the demand of this subject is more in the market.
One cannot classify that the student chose this subject under the pressure of society and start
blaming him for not breaking the stereotypes.

Educational institutes and parents are more concerned nowadays about the bringing up process
of their students and children because they have seen the cases where students aren’t humans and
more a robot. The end result is very ominous for parents and institutions because generally it’s
the suicide. John Wilson said that no parent wants his child brought up in a different religious or
moral code from his own, so no society is as yet prepared to allow its youth to be educated
primarily as human beings, but the society nowadays is opposite to this and they are more
concerned about the humanity and mental health, especially if we talk about the students or
youth. There are ongoing researches and surveys on this problem so that no one else faces the
same difficulties. A survey was done in 2004 in a Malaysian school where they studied the
behavior of adolescents and concluded that there should be a bridge between students and
parents and between students and teachers. Today is 2019 and this research was in 2004 that
showed that people are breaking the stereotypes and focusing on being human.

John said when you get in a classroom most of what educationalists have written seems utterly
divorced from reality. Whereas, the teaching system nowadays is more based on reality and
principles as the science has progressed in a very fruitful manner, students are allowed to think
critically and question about everything. The education nowadays allows the student to have
more exposure and experience the world by practice, however Wilson said that the gap between
theory and practice is appallingly wide. People are preferring to choose the institutions which are
more practical than theoretical as it allows one to think and analyze the world by their
perspectives. Proper surveys have been done to tell the importance of practical studies. A survey
in the schools of Qatar in 2014 showed the importance in which 179 teachers participated and
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proper interviews were held that told that practical study is more important for the students and
teachers are the main source for that.

Students nowadays are highly encouraged to present their perspective and choose what they want
to. No one forces them as they know that they are the youth of the country and they will build the
infrastructure of the future and the foundation of progress. Basic culture and manners are taught
to everyone and it is important to know them. Learning these things are not a part of any pressure
that student goes through and they suffer because of that. Students are taught to build arguments
and present them so that they will feel like they also have importance and their views matter. It
should not matter that whether someone likes your choices or not. The writer liked Palestrina and
he found it peculiar so it is completely fine in liking that. No one has to the right to impose
something else on that.

Distinctions are made between what things are supposed to learn and what are not. Some things
require practical examples and interests. It does not depend what you are learning the thing that
matter is by the end of the day you learned something and this is actually a scenario to cherish.
Learning is learning whether it is academic or non-academic. Learning requires a conversation
between teacher and the pupil, when they’ll discuss things, then new ideas will be created and
the exposure will be beyond the limits. Whereas, Wilson said that, The first type of teaching,
then, relates to subjects which are not essential to human beings as such. It consists mostly of
factual knowledge, and does not require any very sophisticated form of communication between
teacher and pupil. I totally disagree with this as the communication is the basic medium of
learning. Dale Carnegie explained in his book “ how to win friends and influence people” that
communication is the medium to progress. New ideas aren’t received without sharing your
thoughts with someone.

Skills are the basic epitome of every progress and for sure skills cannot be a subject, but subjects
can be made to learn and teach skills. If a person wants to learn some skills, then it’s better to
teach him all the things he wants in a form of compiled subject. Students bear the right to choose
the subject for learning skills as per their choice while Wilson said skills are not subjects.

Philosophers, cannot make the decisions to make the education system better, but the people
most importantly required are the students and the teachers because the ideas and creativity of
youth is everything that we will have in the future. Teachers should be trained according to that
and give a better pace and medium to the students and teachers so that they will understand each
other and then progress together for the society.
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References:

1- Dale Carnegie: How to win friends and influence people. (1936)

2- Paul C.Y. Chen, Lai Kah Lee,Kam Cheong Wong, Department of Community Medicine,
International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, International Medical
University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Clinical Skills Unit, International Medical
University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2004)

3- Ziad Said, Heather Friesen and Hiba al-Ezzah, College of North Atlantic Qatar, Abu
Dabhi University, United Arab Emirates (2014)