Consciousness, Language And Education

Philosophy of John R. Searle represents the analytic philosophy in the new development of contemporary. The "new" embodied in a turn——the research center of analytic philosophy on contemporary from the philosophy of language to the philosophy of the mind. The philosophy of the mind back from the traditional analytic philosophy rejecting metaphysics to philosophy ontology. The philosophy ontology of Searle called "biological naturalism", to illustrate the mind and consciousness phenomenon from the development of the reality world. As a contemporary philosophy of the mind of the leader, in the discussion of physical and mental problems, Searle think of consciousness is the correct path to solve this problem. Searle’s research work includes three parts——the philosophy of language, philosophy of the mind and philosophy of society, and to illustrate how it all ties together. In this sense the different between philosophy of Searle and traditional analytic philosophy can been seen, logical analysis is focused by traditional analytic philosophers. Searle also carried out a number of logical analysis, but he also stressed that the comprehensive. He believes that the world is a coherent whole, we should be able to explain the different part of the world is how to relate to each other, which is a synthesis by analyst. In the overall view of the world, the internal logic of Searle’s philosophy can been seen:consciousness, intentionality, collective intentionality, language, meaning, social, also it is the logic of construction of social reality.Searle’s philosophy on the construction of social reality theory has direct implications for Education: consciousness as a starting point of education; there are essential relationship between consciousness and intentionality, the world to be knew by intentionality for the students; when the intentionality from the individual to collective intentionality, means that students into social civilization; language is essential for education as a institutional reality, the actual operation of education is the illocutionary acts of the teacher; from the physical sound to the illocutionary acts, the meaning plays a key role in this, language associated with reality by the meaning, different from general speaking, the reality of understanding is established by teaching intention; education as a social and institutional reality is been constructed by illocutionary acts of teacher.Education is to cultivate people, whose foothold is consciousness. Education as a social and institutional reality, consciousness plays a role of dynamic cause in its formation and development. And, human act through the consciousness, human behavior can been affected directly by education which affect human consciousness. human consciousness be cultivated by letting the students consciousness set up a qualitative net about the world. Because the state of consciousness can not have function individually, they need to be in a link network of state of consciousness. The quality education is to transmit knowledge which is in the network. Pay attention to the knowledge service is not wrong, the key lies in the thing which is transmitted is fragmented knowledge or knowledge in the network. This network is not divided by different subjects. Teachers have view of the world of "one world", which is the starting point to design teaching and do "integral teaching". In teaching, the network of intentionality should be drawn by intentionality of the mind. And, each conscious state in the network has its certain qualitative, which makes them can be distinguished from other conscious states. The qualitative net developments in the two dimensions of both quantity and quality, it representation the world which human living in. The reason of using consciousness as a starting point for education is to make the purpose of letting the student’s mind understanding the world true.How to make students understand the the world, make Searle’s theory of intentionality can explain this, have implications for teaching process."Intrinsic intentionality" directly establish the relationship between the mind and the world. Teaching have to achieve this "intrinsic intentionality". The qualitative network constructed by teachers is the "intrinsic intentionality". In order to let the students directly obtain the "intrinsic intentionality", the method is to make satisfying condition exist, and enable the satisfying condition establish direct contact with intentional state which can be conscious by students; enable students feel it real; direct experience is a primary stage, its meaning will extended. To distinction between "intrinsic intentionality" and "derived intentionality", all linguistic meaning is "derived intentionality". The content of teaching materials and teaching reference books is not directly the teaching content, so teachers should take the teaching materials and teaching reference books which in the form of "derived intentionality" turn into "intrinsic intentionality" directly establishing the relationship with the world.The actual operation of education depends on Teachers’ language. Teachers’ each illocutionary acts perform are included four intentions as follows:"saying" intention, meaning intention, communicative intention and teaching intention. If and only if the four intentional states exist at the same time, the teaching is satisfied. Therefore, teachers’ language, not just a physical sound, not only let the physical sound has the correct linguistic and logical meaning, not only is generally satisfied with the linguistic and logical not wrong language meaning, but in all these existing at the same time given to education significance--it can for students to understand and this is the intention of the teacher. Teachers’ language can be divided into five types, whether the language is appropriate, it depends on whether or not this sentence make the function of its’ type come true.The pedagogy in the perspective of Searle’s philosophy providing a consistent and basis logic analysis for the process of education, has always been committed to find teaching problems, puts forward improvement strategies, designs the teaching communicating the mind of children and the world.