Essay - Educational Philosophy Statement What Do You Think is Real, True...

Educational Philosophy Statement

***** do you think is real, true, good, beautiful and logical?

The Engl*****h poet John Keats wrote in his poem entitled "Ode to a Grecian Urn": "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all /Ye know on earth, and ***** ye need ***** know." Keats meant that beauty was synonymous with the kind of logical perfection and truth evident in great art. Keats also ***** for a work ***** art to be *****autiful, it needed to be truthful and have some correspondence w*****h reality. For example, a pretty s*****ry that suggests good people are always rewarded and ***** wicked are always punished, does not meet Keats' standards of beauty and truth. Stories may be fictional ***** great works ***** *****, but even fiction must contain some insight about the human condition to ensure that it constitutes great art. Great ***** teaches, just as teachers teach great art. Thus, I would add ***** beauty is ***** only truth, truth beauty: beauty ***** what is real, good, and logical as well. All of these values ***** tied *****gether

Keats wrote ***** lines while gazing at a Greci*****n urn, while he observed painted people on the v*****e in constant pursuit, youthful ***** in lo*****, but never *****iz*****g their passion. He said that the images on ***** Grecian urn were ***** because it captured a moment in time that many people experience when a rel*****tionship is ***** beginning and everything in life seems joyful. Youth and enthusiasm are beautiful, of course. However, I believe if the urn were transformed into a story ***** suggested that love was always perfect, then the story ***** not be beautiful because it would ***** be fully *****ful and ***** a logic*****l structure to ********** tale. The urn ***** ***** ***** one ***** in time, unlike a story.

A story m*****y not be factually truthful but it must at least contain ***** insights. It must reflect the ***** that most ***** us *****. Even ***** most sublime ***** story of all *****, "Romeo and Juliet," shows not only the beauty of love but how even ***** most innocent and comm*****ted young people in love cannot avoid being injured by the ugly societal forces ***** family hate ***** adult manipulation. ***** synonymous nature of truth, realism, goodness, logic and beauty is why ***** individuals experience only a guilty pleasure when they watch bad, unrealistic television programs ***** merely tell them fantasy stories about the world, and have no basis in reality ***** truth. These stories often ***** scenes that ***** *****t *****al with the real narrative ***** and created world of ***** story, ***** are merely *****cluded because they are sensationalist—or ***** they promote a sponsor's product.

Of course, a ***** fiction*****l story may edit out some aspects of mundane existence, but a good story creates a sense of 'yes, I agree,' ***** 'yes, I understand' in the hearts of a reader or viewer. A ********** painted picture or statue that is ***** fills ***** *****'s heart with