It is one of the complaints of the schoolmaster that the public does not defer to his professional opinion as completely as it does to that of practitioners in other professions. At first sight it might seem as though this indicated a defect either in the public or in the profession; and yet a wider view of the situation would suggest that such a conclusion is not a necessary one. The relations of education to the public are different from those of any other professional work. Education is a public business with us, in a sense that the protection and restoration of personal health or legal rights are not. To an extent characteristic of no other institution, save that of the state itself, the school has power to modify the social order. And under our political system, it is the right of each individual to have a voice in the making of social policies as, indeed, he has a vote in the determination of political affairs. If this be true, education is primarily a public business, and only secondarily a specialized vocation. The layman, then, will always have his right to some utterance on the operation of the public schools.

Üstün yetenekli öğrencilere yönelik özel eğitim hizmetlerinin kalitesini arttırmak amacıyla yürütülen Üstün Yetenekliler için Toplum 5.0 isimli projede 100 BİLSEM öğretmeniyle 27 Kasım – 4 Aralık 2022 tarihleri arasında bir çalıştay gerçekleştirildi. AB Katılım Öncesi Mali Yardım Aracı-IPA tarafından mali destek sunulan proje Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır BİLSEM tarafından yürütülürken Turgutlu BİLSEM, Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi ve Celal Bayar Üniversitesi proje ortağı oldu.

Çalıştay kapsamında öğretmenler farklı etkinliklerle uygulamalı olarak proje yönetimi, tasarım odaklı düşünme ve yaratıcı düşünme becerilerini geliştirdiler. Çalıştay farklı üniversitelerden ve BİLSEM’lerden gelen isimlere ev sahipliği yaptı. Farklı uzmanlar ve STK’lar tarafından seminerler gerçekleştirildi. Öğretmenler eğitmenlerimizin danışmanlığında tasarım odaklı düşünme becerilerini kullanarak projeler geliştirdiler. Çalıştayın son gününde ise Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır BİLSEM’de bir uygulama gerçekleştirdiler.

Eğitim sistemi içerisinde yer almaya başlayan tasarım odaklı düşünme sisteminin kullanılması ile oluşacak yeni fikirlerde, tasarımlarda, projelerde ya da sanat yapıtlarında, amatörce ama profesyonel bir ruhla hazırlanan bu kitabın katkısı olması umulmaktadır

The Herbart school adheres to this view of education, and has transferred its spirit and method to the schools. The Herbartians have the hardihood, in this age of moral skeptics, to believe not only in moral example but also in moral teaching. (By moral skeptics we mean those who believe in morals but not in moral instruction.) They seek first of all historical materials of the richest moral content, in vivid personification, upon which to nourish the moral spirit of children. If properly treated, this subject matter will soon win the children by its power over feeling and judgment. With Crusoe the child goes through every hardship and success; with Abraham he lives in tents, seeks pastures for his flocks, and generously marches out to the rescue of his kinsmen. He should not read Caesar with a slow and toilsome drag (parsing and construing) that would render a bright boy stupid. If he goes with Caesar at all, he must build an agger, fight battles, construct bridges, and approve or condemn Caesar’s acts. But we doubt the moral value of Caesar’s Gallic wars. By reading Plutarch we may see that the Latins and Greeks, before the days of their degeneracy, nourished their rising youth upon the traditions of their ancestry. The education produced a tough and sinewy brood of moral qualities.