{"id":1469,"date":"2020-08-15T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T11:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2024-04-20T07:53:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:53:03","slug":"blooms-taxonomy-and-the-purpose-of-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationalrenaissance.com\/2020\/08\/15\/blooms-taxonomy-and-the-purpose-of-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Purpose of Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the major themes in the classical education renewal movement has been to challenge the utilitarianism of modern education. The purpose of education, the argument has gone, is so much broader and more far-reaching than modern educators are making it out to be. It is not merely job training or college preparation, but the formation of flourishing human beings. The cultivation of wisdom and virtue is the purpose of education. There is joy in seeking knowledge<\/a> for its own sake and as an end in itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next Article in this Series: “Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Importance of Objectives: 3 Blessings of Bloom’s”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An example of this can be found in Leisure the Basis of Culture<\/a> <\/em>where Josef Pieper defended the role of leisure as a deeply human and transcendent experience. Leisure, for Pieper, is properly defined as a celebratory and worshipful stepping apart from the workaday world. It looks and feels more like contemplation or the philosophical act. More recently Chris Perrin, founder of Classical Academic press<\/a>, has drawn from this idea to commend school as schole<\/em>, <\/em>returning us to the linguistic history of the word \u2018school\u2019 as leisure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The point here is that the purpose of education is something grander and wider than we often allow it to be when we focus on the needs and goals of the workaday world. It entails a sort of restful contemplation that does not have in view mere practical considerations. In this account, then, education is about stepping away from the utilitarian world and embracing the transcendence implied in our human nature. As the teacher of Ecclesiastes puts it, God \u201chas put eternity into man\u2019s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end\u201d (Eccl 3:11 ESV). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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