Recently, I've been musing on my own experiences within various educational institutions and reflecting on some of the teachers and teachings I've encountered in my travels. On the back of this contemplation I did some further reading.
Here's a teaser from an interesting article I read.
The Paradox of Education: A Conversation
Bernhard Poerksen, Humberto R. Maturana
The Journal of Aesthetic Education 40.1 (2006) 25-33
"Immanuel Kant writes in his essay Über Pädagogik that the wide field of education is governed by a fundamental paradox. On the one hand, we want free and self-determined individuals to leave our schools; on the other, we impose a syllabus on the future individuals, force them to attend schools, punish their failures, and persecute their noncompliance. There is, if we follow Kant, an inescapable relationship of tension between the goals and the means of educational efforts: They contradict each other. Would you Agree?"
Here's the link to full article.
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