Song Of Myself By Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was a man who believed in individuality and self-teaching. This is displayed throughout many of his poem and literary works. In Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography, it is said that Whitman was a teacher of others, even though he did believe in a method of self-teaching. (Reynolds) He saw self-education as a very productive and effective way of being taught. While this was one view, he also believed being taught by another was beneficial. Walt Whitman’s pedagogy involved the belief of self-education and experiential learning rather than just listening to lecturing. One of Whitman’s first views of his pedagogy was an experiential outlook. This meant that he believed that you would learn and retain more information by actually going through the experiences yourself, and having to sort it out alone. If you had to solve the problem alone, without a helping hand, that would obviously cause you to take a
Because there are young people in the world, the world will become a better place. He believed that the youth were the joy of the world. The youth are full of so many opportunities, and they are the future of all generations. In Song of Myself, Whitman asks, “What do you think has become of the young and the old men?” He’s wondering where each have gotten. Obviously, as you grow older, your body deteriorates, so the old men are becoming less great. But as you grow, you develop great new aspects in your life. So the younger men have progressed in their growth and knowledge. Thus, the younger people are the better. In Theorists of Economic Growth from David Hume to the Present, it’s said that the younger people are contributors and major thinkers who have shaped the evolution of theories. Whitman believed this was true. (Rostow) In his pedagogy, Whitman saw the younger people as the upcoming great new aspect of the