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Bertrand Russell’s Philosophy of Education
Hawkar Hamad Khdir, Batool Ridha Abbas
Russell’s views on education are both interesting and controversial. Similar to Rousseau and Locke, he considered education to be a process of “self-habit.” Russell believed that children are like raw materials at birth, and it is our responsibility to shape them. In the beginning, it is very easy to influence a child, whether positively or negatively, because children are neither inherently good nor bad at birth. What influences them is, on one hand, an unknown nature, and on the other hand, education and various environmental factors that shape this raw material—the child. Habits and conditioning, whether for better or worse, ultimately lead to either happiness or misery. A child is born with certain instincts and develops habits under the influence of the environment, which may be good or bad. This is largely determined by the intelligence and wisdom of the parents and guardians, as the nature of the child from the beginning is so soft, compliant, and receptive that it is almost unbelievable. Most children are capable of becoming either good or bad individuals, as the instincts and reactions they possess become stable habits and characteristics due to environmental and educational influences—especially during childhood. For this reason, the foundation of a child’s behavior and personality is formed early in life. Russell believed that moral education—the education of a child’s soul and personality—should begin at an early age to help them become positive, brave, and intelligent members of society. According to him, this can be achieved with most children, often with very good results.
Volume 12 · Issue 1 · February 2025The Effect of The School Entourage on Formation of Students' Characters
Jalal Qadir Jameel, Abdulmajeed Ghafoor Ibrahim
The purpose of this research to know the effect of the school entourage in the formation of students' character and know the effect of the physical entourage and identify the effect of the social entourage as well as the importance of identifying the effect of the school entourage in the formation of students' character in the preparatory grade of the faculty for both genders. This phenomenon is a kind of human behavior when some students are exposed to problems in society and the school entourage related to interaction and cooperation. The approach used in this research was the Analytical descriptive. The results of the study showed a positive significance. the value of the correlation coefficient was between the two variables (>0.501) and at the level of significance was) > 0.05) and we conclude higher of the levels of interest in the school entourage, the higher the levels of students' character by (50.1%). There was a positive statistically significant correlation between the physical character dimension of the school character variable and the students' entourage variable, as the value of the correlation coefficient and the physical environment and the students' personality variable equal to (>0.413 ). The level of assumed statistical significance by the researcher (>0.05) and confirms that the higher the levels of interest in the physical entourage. the Physical entourage levels and variety of students' character by (41.3%), there was a significant correlation with positive statistical significance between the dimension of the social entourage from the variable school entourage and the variable of students' character, as the value of the correlation coefficient between the social environment and the variable of students' character (0.521) and at the level of statistical significance assumed by the researcher (>0.05) and this was approved that the higher the social character levels causing an increase the character of students by (52.1%).