I believe that students are active constructors of their world and not passive receivers of information. They are active participants in the learning process. I believe that knowledge is anything worth learning about. Knowledge is a vast body of facts, skills, interests, processes, subjects and potentials. I believe that there are basic skills and facts that every person should learn for survival in our world.
Survival is more than just basic skills though.
Knowledge can be a higher-level process that is more than rote recall. I also believe there are some classic pieces, facts, and information that are too wonderful not to share with all students, but that all aspects on knowledge need to be explored, not just the classics. I believe that all of the philosophical areas that we discussed are important in schools. Each area has a great contribution to teaching and the learning process. We need perennialism in some situations because sometimes lecture-type teaching is the best way or most efficient way to present an idea or a large amount of information.