F.D.E. Schleiermacher's Outlines of the Art of Education
A Translation & Discussion
Norm Friesen, Karsten Kenklies, Norm Friesen, Karsten Kenklies
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F.D.E. Schleiermacher's Outlines of the Art of Education
A Translation & Discussion
Norm Friesen, Karsten Kenklies, Norm Friesen, Karsten Kenklies
About This Book
"One must assume we are all familiar with what is commonly called 'education.'" This is how Schleiermacher begins his famous 1826 lecture on the Art of Education. But in proceeding furtherâand unlike Rousseau or Locke before himâSchleiermacher carefully avoids assuming that education is primarily about a return to nature or about "soundness" of mind and body. Education is instead an ethical and political undertaking and a pragmatic art whose ultimate object and morality has differed greatly over time. It is exercised as a form of practical influence of the older generation on the younger: "A significant part of the activity of the older generation extends toward the younger, " Schleiermacher reasons, and it "is more complete and perfect the more it is governed by an idea of what should happenâthe more it has an exemplar to guide its actionâthe more it is an art. " This book offers these and other insights on educationâlong canonical in Central and Northern Europeâfor the first time to an English audience. It also provides five chapters by scholars in education and its history that discuss various aspects of Schleiermacher's lecture.