The purpose of Education

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[Origin of this project: http://longistood.blogspot.com/2009/10/purpose-of-education-confluence-and.html]

What is the purpose of Education?

1. What is role of the individual?


2. What is role of education with regard to the individual?


3. What is the role of school in education?


4. How should a school educate?

What is role of the individual?

I believe that the role of the individual is to be, to be best of one's ability, an enthusiastic participant in civilization - the ethical and material refinement of one's culture in a sustainable manner.

What is role of education?

I believe that the role of Education is to assist the individual in fullfulling his/her role

a. by making available the collective history of civilization in a manner that he or she may utilize it

b. by nurturing, especially in pre-adults, an ambition for his or her role

What is role of school?

I believe that the role of the School is to assisst the community, from its smallest scale as a family to its largest scale as humanity, in the Education of the individual.

To this end, I believe that the School, on behalf of society, must take on the responsibility for collecting, interpreting, and disseminating the history of civilization. Further, in order to nuture the ambition of the individual, the School must a) actively model the role of the individual and b) provide a setting in which the individual's ambition may progressively grow.

I believe that the School is a trustee, but not the only one, of the legacy of all prior generations.

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