Concept
Education
Overview
transmission of knowledge and skills
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In the original texts
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Summary. It is the very nature of life to strive to continue in being. Since this continuance can be secured only by constant renewals, life is a self-renewing process. What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. This education consists primarily in transmission through communication. Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
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Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. This is an art very difficult to impart. Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it.
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
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It is not in a spirit of reverence that education is conducted by States and Churches and the great institutions that are subservient to them. What is considered in education is hardly ever the boy or girl, the young man or young woman, but almost always, in some form, the maintenance of the existing order. When the individual is considered, it is almost exclusively with a view to worldly success—making money or…
Bertrand Russell, Why Men Fight
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The end is remote, and education is getting ready, is a preliminary to something more important to happen later on. Childhood is only a preparation for adult life, and adult life for another life. Always the future, not the present, has been the significant thing in education: Acquisition of knowledge and skill for future use and enjoyment; formation of habits required later in life in business, good citizenship and…
John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy
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4. The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind, considered historically. In other words, the genesis of knowledge in the individual must follow the same course as the genesis of knowledge in the race. In strictness, this principle may be considered as already expressed by implication; since both, being processes of evolution, must conform to those same general…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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Philosophers who discussed Education
- Al-Farabi
- Leonard Peikoff
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Paulo Freire
- Antonio Rosmini
- Jean Piaget
- Frithjof Bergmann
- Nel Noddings
- María Zambrano
- Aleksander Świętochowski
- Theodor Litt
- Kieran Egan (philosopher)
- Kenneth Wain
- Miguel Reale
Related ideas
- Progressive education
- Ethnicity
- History
- Artificial intelligence
- Government
- Philosophy
- Halakha
- Yeshiva
- Creativity
- Hygiene
- Metacognition
- Student
- Arab world
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- Personality
- Science education
- Literacy
- Law enforcement
- Sociology
- Mathematics
- Music
- Geography
- Prehistory
- Autonomy
Opposing perspectives
- Commission of National Education
- Science education
- Religious education
- Value theory
- Aztecs
- Popular culture
- Sex education
Place in the tradition
Part of Absurdism.