Marsigit Philosophy Class Assignment 4 (Review)

Marsigit Philosophy Class Assignment 4 (Review)



“I didn’t know that I DID NOT KNOW until I met you, Philosophy”: Student’s voice on Philosophy Class taught by Prof. Dr. Marsigit, MA

               Marsigit Philosophy Class Assignment 4. This is the fourth task I have to submit as the final assignment in the philosophy class. We have to write a review on the course, the whole process of the teaching and learning process in this semester and then what we have gone through and what finally we got from the course. Let me write this review in the form of a narrative story, Professor. The other students may submit the whole detail of the materials in each meeting, but I will talk about the feeling I have gone through the meetings.

            The first meeting of the class was held on September 5, 2019. We were waiting for you in one of the rooms in the fourth floor in Gedung Unggul. From the schedule, it was said that the lecturer will be Prof.Dr.Marsigit, MA. I did remember well he was the lecturer who taught us (the teachers of Gunungkidul) about lesson study some years ago. When finally, you entered the class, you told us that we did not need to sit in the “formal” seat arrangement, so we arranged the chairs in a small circle. That meeting, you asked our name, hometown, and institution where we belong. You also told us some stories about you and also some requirements of the philosophy class. We need to learn philosophy more by reading your blog (https://powermathematics.blogspot.com).  The things we have to do are reading the posts and commenting on the post, beside you also told us that we would have some quizzes in the following meetings. Finally, the class ended, and it left good impression on me, I thought “this class will be fun”. I visited the blog and read some posts and also commented on some interesting posts. My favorite one was “KEMISTRI”. This figure was my comment on your blog.

As for a language teacher, my comment was related to the term “chemistry” itself. Frankly speaking, reading your posts made me get different view of that issue. I did enjoy reading the posts.

            The following meetings, in Meeting 2,3, 4 and so on were other journeys that I had to go through. I still could not believe myself that I always got zero (0) for my quizzes. We got 50 numbers in each quiz. The quiz consisted of fifty words and we had to find the philosophy of each word. For example, the philosophy of “love” is “romantism”; “healthy” is “harmony”; “things” are “materials” and etc. Then, the next level of the quiz was something like “the philosophy of the goddess fighting, the stones making love, and etc”

As I mentioned earlier, from those 50 numbers I got none of them right. It happened once or twice when I got 1 or 2 for the quiz. At first, I was embarrassed. Frankly speaking, I thought the questions or statements were strange and I also could not believe myself that I KNOW NOTHING. However, after listening to the explanations, I slowly realized that indeed the things were true. For example, the philosophy of “the goddess who fight” means “the end of the world”. Here, the goddess means someone or something in the top position, so when Professor explained it as “the goddess who fight” say, “two countries’ leader were fighting, it caused the two countries’ lives were in danger and would possibly lead to the end of those countries’ lives”. The explanations in a real-life example made me understand the phenomenon more. I was also comforted by Professor’s word that, the zero in my quiz showed that I still need to learn, unlearn, and relearn.  

The next, more complicated philosophy was taught to us. We learnt things about “a priori” and “posteriori” I remembered when Professor drew a line on the middle of the white board. Then this life was actually shown in that line, there were “reality and ideality”, “earth and sky”; “a priori” and “posteriori”, and many more. I might not understand all of those things. But one thing for sure, all the things that I learnt in this philosophy class led me to realize that “I didn’t know that I DID NOT KNOW”.  To make me know means I need to learn more. Learning is not always set up in a classroom, philosophy taught me that learning can happen anywhere and anytime. Learning can be from anything. It just happened after this class that I think of the quote from you, Professor “People are not all alive, some are the dead-walk” And I do not want to be one of those “zombies” so I have to learn. The fact that I realized from this philosophy class, “I didn’t know that I DID NOT KNOW” will make me want to know more and learn more.