Breaking (and Healing) the Social Covenant

Autor/in	Solway, David
Titel	Breaking (and Healing) the Social Covenant
Quelle	In: Academic Questions, 26 (2013) 2, S.208-211 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-4852
DOI	10.1007/s12129-013-9351-x
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; General Education; Foreign Countries; Educational History; Intellectual History; Educational Development; Behavioral Objectives; Educational Objectives; Cognitive Mapping; Etiology; Specialization; Educational Attitudes; Educational Practices; Educational Principles; Educational Philosophy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Allgemein bildendes Schulwesen; Allgemeinbildung; Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Geistesgeschichte; Bildungsentwicklung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Ätiologie; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsprinzip; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie
Abstract	One of the main factors implicated in the atomization of contemporary life, both as cause and effect, is the brunt and tenor of modern liberal education. For it cannot be denied that liberal education in the classic sense has severed its mandate to instruct and enlighten from the archive of the past and has been replaced by the concept of specialization. The student is no longer considered as a living vessel to be filled with the cultural incunabula. In other words, he is not to be "educated" in the true sense of "e-ducere"--to lead out of ignorance--but rather "trained" and "indoctrinated." This is precisely the argument that the late president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel, in which he laments what the author likes to call the "new scholasticism," that is, the production of "idiot-specialists." Rather than analyzing the particular forms and symptoms of the current educational failure, this essay sketches in broad strokes the historical-cultural climate within which the marked contraction and deformation of education has occurred. (Contains 6 footnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10