Contemporary Education Support The Learning Requirements...

Contemporary Education: A Need to Modify Educational Standards to Support the Learning Requirements of Introverted and Extroverted Students Equally. Many societies have been trained to listen and relate to the louder voice, and respond to dominant behavior demonstrated by an individual; often named a leader. Humans possess the innate ability to respond to the output stimulus of their environment, specifically other people; therefore, the greater the stimulus, the greater reaction. Humans tend to associate dominant behaviors with authority figures or leaders. This model of organized human behavior often leaves the quiet individuals in a crowd unheard; their thoughts and solutions are rarely heard or mentioned. Their ideas are perceived as†¦show more content†¦Contemporary educational systems derived from the late 19th century advocate learning practices and environments that support the success of extroverted students, while disregarding the significance of the independent learning proficiencies and methods of introverted students. Carl Jung, a Swiss, psychologist, began his professional career 1900; starting out as an assistant to Eugen Bleuler at the University of Zurich where he focused much of research on the unconscious mind and its parameters that he labeled as â€Å"complexes† (â€Å"Carl Gustav Jung†). In 1916, Jung published his finding â€Å"Two Essays on Analytical Psychology,† and â€Å"Psychological Types,† which described psychological typology, where the terms of: extro- and introversion originate (â€Å"Carl Gustav Jung†). Jung’s â€Å"Red Book,† a compilation of his works his regarded as â€Å"one of the most important publications of modern psychology† (â€Å"Carl Gustav Jung†). Carl Jung had a significant impact on psychological research, which was explained in further detail by the implementation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers formulated a detailed extension of Jung’s theory of psychological types in 1943; the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator or, MBTI. The instrument is an assessment of 16 general possible personality combinations