Name: Jim Carl Q.

Maasin

Yr. &Sec.: BSEd III - Social Studies

Date: November 21, 2016

Assignment #001

Rating: _____

1.) What is meant by tunnel-vision in education?

Tunnel-vision in education refers to the impractical use of information in the academics
and has little or no knowledge in applying it in reality. The concept of tunnel-vision simply
talks about the single-minded concentration or the narrow-minded viewpoint on a specified
subject.
A person can be enriched and gifted with such knowledge in his thoughts as expected
from (for example) a graduate student but is not necessarily (most often) he is scholarly in
action having that mental capability of that envisioned in higher education. His thoughts may
have plenty of information or knowledge in school but lacks the ability to fuse all of that
information together into one unified interconnected chain of ideas that can be understood in
the simplest way. Tunnel-visioned individuals tend to think and understand things in the
shortest range. This mental processing hinders the individual to think widely. The solution to
avoid this from happening in our educational system is by strengthening it by preaching the
value of Philosophy in the academics so that students and teachers alike will achieve the goal
in education, and thus making intellectual discourses especially in the field interesting,
professional, and productive.
Individuals who happens to have this kind of thinking goes to show that there is a crack
in the effectiveness in teaching the value and application of knowledge in the real world. A
student wholl soon graduate will find himself in a very difficult situation and might create
problems on the way on the understanding on larger subjects.
Once that we cure the ignorance - the shallow understanding, people most especially
those in the academe, students will value the essence of these things and become wise or
intelligent, they are now the very product of higher education as envisioned for the future
generation.

2.) Why is there a critical need for Philosophy today?

The study of Philosophy is essential for its application in every single day. Its true that
philosophy gives a man a sense of direction to his life and it revolves on the individual mind
everything he needs to follow and how a person identify whats right and whats not. Aside
from that, it changes his perspective how he view things in his environment. To further
elaborate this, first, philosophy sharpens the mind of the individual. Science is just merely
collective knowledge but philosophy the central core or the foundation of the discipline.
Individuals should seek for the philosophical thought of the context, not the text itself.
Individuals need to develop critical and deep thinking not only for the very meaning on its
surface.
Second, the study of philosophy helps clarify issues and improve decision making. We
should have a clear thought on the difference between truth and falsity. By being enlightened
by its philosophy, well be choosing the best option to act and for information to be digested
intellectually. In the modern age where data is overloaded, critical thinking is a lifesaver for
we must differentiate the facts from the opinion and think deep on the problem, situation or
issue. By doing so, we wont be ignorantly conforming to the opinion of the majority but
decide on our own what to believe. Who knows in the end, you might right all along.

Third, by applying philosophy in every step we encounter, it enriches our personal wellbeing. It enables us to understand ourselves better and others too. By giving importance to
philosophy, we are making better versions of ourselves. It widens our view around us and
beyond, it opens ourselves to see a bigger scope of the things that matters to us, and accepts
and better comprehend reality in general. Being open-minded will get you to a lot of places.
Lastly, it makes us see our role in this world, the significance and meaning of life.
Philosophy transforms us into an enlightened person whose viewpoint is holistic and has a
broad perspective on things that matters to him and values the things that didnt given value
before.

3.) Prove that Philosophy is the Queen of all Sciences.

Philosophy is the Queen of all Sciences because it is the central thought in which the
discipline or science presides with. Science tackles on the collective knowledge while
philosophy is on the aspects of mans experiences. In investigation, science concerns on the
facts, principles and method in the experimentation or observation, while philosophy
primarily concerned on the nature of things and on man. Most of the times our thoughts are
existential in philosophy like the most common question whats the meaning of life?
Since philosophy is the love of wisdom and is mans experience, then it revolves o
mans curiosity on the natural world which later on after discovery, science is concluded.
Like a tree, if the branches is science, the roots that held and supports it is philosophy which
is the idea, theory, principle, the foundation of the entire structure. It is not confined to one
science or discipline alone, but instead, it encompasses every sciences. Philosophy
synthesizes the confusion and contradiction in data and harmonizes and brings sciences
together to complement and support thats why theres this idea called inter- and
multidisciplinary field or study.
Philosophy gives us certainty on the truth which science provides and it assists us on the
values information of the study.
Science without philosophy is blind and philosophy without science is empty
anonymous. Aside from the idea that philosophy and science are interconnected, philosophy
is above science because as already stated; philosophy encompasses the mere collection of
data and thus puts them into one unified thought, adds meaning into it and has its holistic
view which acts as the primary structure of foundation which supports the entire body of
science. Philosophy adds its significance and meaning into it which makes the truth in the
study congruent, valid, and acceptable.

Reference:
Experience of Philosophy: General Introduction to Philosophy, by Archimedes
C. Articulo.
Philosophy Made Easy, by Franciscano M. Zalueta.
The Human Person: Not Real, but Existing, by Eddie R. Babor.