Education is a simply soul of society as it passes from one generation to another

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another”

 
              Gilbert K. Chesterton

Agenda 

• Conception of  education
• Comparison of education with human
• Concept of collective unconscious
• The influence on development of education
• Why it can be a soul of society?
• Summary

Conception 

• Education – multivalued  conception
• The main functions:
• Produce and systemize knowledge
• Accumulate
• Save and spread
• Scientific discoveries

• “Nobel prizes and research results create the prestige of educational institutions of technology. The quality of the education, however, is determined by the teacher's daily instruction.” 

International  Society for Engineering  Education,

1988

Comparison with organism 

   Education Living organism 

Transmission of  information

Collective unconscious  

• Carl Gustav Jung  in 1961
• Theory:

   Development of individual is already in its intrauterine provides a total memory of the human race, called the “collective unconscious” 

Archetype 

The influence on development  of education 
 

• Requirements for  beneficial education:
• Cultural environment
• Traditions
• Informational background
• Teaching and scientific staff

Why education can be  a soul of society? 

• Has same features  with human’s development
• Cultural environment depends on quality of life and education
• The existence of education is in …

   human minds and soul

Summary 

• Functions education
• Produce and systemize knowledge
• Accumulate
• Save and spread
• Scientific discoveries
• Education as socio-biological organism, transmission of information
• The concept of collective unconscious , archetypes
• Requirements for beneficial education, cultural environment
• Education lives and develops in humans minds’

References 

• C. G. Jung.  The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious,  2nd ed., trans. by R.F.C. Hull. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1969, p. 4.
• International Society for Engineering Education, 2008, http://leonardo.utb.cz/html/unikla/eur-ingpaed%20en.htm

 

• National Environmental  Education Foundation, 2008, http://www.neefusa.org/education/

 

• http://images.google.com

Thank you 
 
 
 
 
 

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