Louis Mazzullo seeks to redefine our educational system’s priorities with his new book Philosophy of Education. Instead of ultra-competitive programs which foster negative thinking in students, there is a need to reframe current educational philosophy into a model that values individual student development and provides students a lasting foundation of values and belief systems that prepare them for their respective and unique progress in the society.
Current educational initiatives like NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and “Race to the Top” are competitive models that only acknowledge success. Louis Mazzullo makes new parameters to our Philosophy of Education for ever more humane and progressive models that will hopefully induce correct changes to present realities–one that firmly remembers how school teaches in loco parentis. He has subsumed a number of sources past and present but claims that,
“While I cannot take credit therefore for many of the ideas’ originality, the synthesis of this body of knowledge, as presented in the following pages, is unique to me.”
This synthesis represents an ideal long-sought after but never materializing in actual practice. It is a holistic paradigm that trains individual students into knowing how it is to be human and applying this to achieve the highest standards of civilized achievement. In sum, it prioritizes teaching in the healthiest way possible for the educational system to serve its constituents.
