David Ferrero

David Ferrero, a chair person of the Gate's Foundation, came to Luther and addressed the audience with his speech Pluralism in Education. In a charismatic and lively way Ferrero took the educationalists and philanthropists views of education and goals of education and highlighted were 'good intention' beliefs of both parties clash with those of the opposite group. He also went over various beliefs of educational philosophy. By doing this he explained that all of the groups and all of these philosophies are trying to achieve the same goal, that goal is to create a better education system for the children. However, where it becomes complicated is in defining better and defining what is 'good' in education. Here is where he left us. There are no answers to these questions. Each one of us as future educators need to approach individual situations with our beliefs and the knowledge of other's beliefs. By doing this we can create a system that may better help students by picking practices and philosophies that show results with the students you have and create the person within the student.