All human societies, past and present, have had an interest in education; and many argue that teaching is the second oldest profession. Even if not all societies allocate sufficient resources to support educational activities and institutions, all at least recognize their centrality; and for good reasons. Teaching, in my opinion, is the first period of the profession. The teaching will always and forever be used until the end of time. We know that everyone is born unaware of education, norms and is illiterate; we do not know the community or society as a whole. This is where teachers come in. Such things must be taught, you are not born with the knowledge. Professional teachers learn their craft with more determination than others, so education also serves as a link between social sorting mechanisms and undoubtedly has an enormous impact on the economic fortunes of the individual. In more abstract terms, education at its best provides individuals with the substantive skills and knowledge that enable them to define and pursue their own goals, and also enables them to participate in the life of their community as full, autonomous citizens. “Education and learning are the promotion of inquiry and reasoning skills that foster the development of autonomy which, roughly speaking, is the tension between conservative education and progressive education, and is also closely related to different opinions on human “perfectibility”. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/education-philosophy/My favorite age and grade level would be the early childhood stage, ages 3 to 5. The ages of 3-5 represent the most important stage of development, i.e. early childhood. This is a crucial moment in one...half of the paper...to measure the student's understanding of the essential material." Frequent testing is highly desirable. For motivational purposes, realists emphasize that it is important that the teacher always reward each student's success. When the teacher reports his students' achievements, he reinforces what has been learned. Works Cited Philosophy of Education retrieved 4/17/11 from: http://plato.stanford.edu. /entries/education-philosophy/Developmental Assets retrieved 3/31/2011 from: http://www.search-institute.org/content/what-are-developmental-assetsMulticultural Education retrieved 4/4/2011 from: http: //www.edchange.org/multicultural.edPhilosophical Perspectives retrieved 4/17/11 from: http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/ed416/PP2.htmlBotnarescue, Helen & Machado Jeanne: Student Teaching 5th Ed. Thompson Learning Clifton , New York