The question "what do I think we should be teaching and why?" is easy for me to answer. Children should learn what they want to learn and not what we force them to learn. For this paper, I could simply write a list of subjects that I think children need to learn. However, my philosophy of education is that each person's inner desires should lead them to select those topics that interest them. As I am not those people, I am not qualified to pick out those subjects of most interest.
In order to understand why it is important for children to learn what they want to, it is first necessary…
