Talk: Philosophy of education

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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt largely avoided education as a subject, but she did so for reasons which are very interesting to educational philosophy. Her thoughts on the subject are recorded in one of the essays collected in Between Past and Future, entitled, "The Crisis in Education." In this essay, Arendt proceeds to argue that any attempt to create democracy through educational methods was a form of tyranny... (Continuation pending)

I have read Arendt essay in german, but that any attempt to create democracy through educational methods was a form of tyranny is nit from her! Look at my german article about that: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Krise_in_der_Erziehung --Ot 12:08, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Horribly sorry, but I don't know any German. Could you summarize the pertinent points in English? -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 18:35, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Sorry, my english is not good enough to translate it. However, I think that Arendt only make some notes about education - and this notes are about the education system of the USA. For example, she said, that it is not possible to educate (erziehen in german [its hard to get a good english word for that] adults, but it is possible to teach (lehren) adults.--Ot 10:04, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)