white picket fence
1st September 2012, 02:01
I found this fabulous quote, which basically outlines an education via learning processes rather then accumulation of facts.
"Educated properly, the subject learns the rules of thought, not a content of positive knowledge, so that thought and knowledge acquisition become a freely autonomous activity, part of the subject. Regarding this distinction between the reflective process of Bildung appropriate to science and the merely mechanical acquisition of positive knowledges, the Idealists are in unison. Thus for Fichte, pedagogy is pure process. The teacher does not transmit facts (which can better be learnt from books the reading of which leaves more room for automous reflection) but rather does two things. First, the teacher narratavizes the search for knowledge, tells the story of the process of knowledge acquisition. Second, the teacher enacts the process, sets knowledge to work. What is thus taught is not facts but critique- the formal art of the use of mental powers, the process of judgement."
what do you think? how can we turn alienated subjects back to active ones? what are the possibilities of an education after a realized communism?
"Educated properly, the subject learns the rules of thought, not a content of positive knowledge, so that thought and knowledge acquisition become a freely autonomous activity, part of the subject. Regarding this distinction between the reflective process of Bildung appropriate to science and the merely mechanical acquisition of positive knowledges, the Idealists are in unison. Thus for Fichte, pedagogy is pure process. The teacher does not transmit facts (which can better be learnt from books the reading of which leaves more room for automous reflection) but rather does two things. First, the teacher narratavizes the search for knowledge, tells the story of the process of knowledge acquisition. Second, the teacher enacts the process, sets knowledge to work. What is thus taught is not facts but critique- the formal art of the use of mental powers, the process of judgement."
what do you think? how can we turn alienated subjects back to active ones? what are the possibilities of an education after a realized communism?