Educational Psychology / Unit 1 EDP 0018 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Idealism and Realism
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The idea
Idealism, from Plato, holds that ideas are the true reality; realism, from Aristotle, holds that reality exists independently of the mind and is known by observation.
In practice
An idealist teacher leads a Socratic dialogue; a realist teacher runs an experiment.
Where people slip
The two differ on where truth lives: in ideas grasped by reason, or in a world studied through the senses.
Your place on the trail
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