Summary of Teaching Philosophy and Objectives Essay -- Philosophy of E

Summary of Teaching Philosophy and Objectives My desire to teach is based upon the belief that teaching will provide me with a challenging and rewarding career. This is my second college experience as I have accomplished a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and pursued jobs in the field of retail management and the banking industry. However, I found those career paths to be lacking in terms of fulfillment. I have come to the realization that I want my life’s work to accomplish more than a numerical salary. Teaching is the profession that will provide the opportunities for me to reach these goals. The philosophical stance that will guide my approach to teaching is idealism. For I believe that the individual is a creation of God’s own image and has free will. With this established, the process of learning is self-initiated. Plato best described this principle of idealism in his writing entitled â€Å"Allegory of the Cave† in which he states: â€Å"Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.† I agree with Plato’s reasoning that our cre...