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Diversity and a Common Education: An Essay on "Can 'Education' be Defined?" |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / T.S. ELIOT ON THE AIMS OF EDUCATION |
| Author: Elliott Wright |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 5,089 Words, 31,542 Characters |
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Visiting Prague in the summer of 1990, I stood one evening in a handsome room dating from the Masaryk era as a midlevel official of Vaclav Havel's eight-month-old government explained to me the promise of the new republic. "We will have a democratic society based on a free market economy, a capitalist system, that avoids the mistakes you have made in the West," he declared in tones at once reverent and passionate. "We will not have the injustice and poverty you allow in the United States."
"How?" I asked, no doubt displaying my American pragmatism and also betraying my limited experience of Bohemian patriotism.
"Education."
The occasion, a reception for an international delegation of human relation specialists, gave me no chance to explore the educational theory and strategy...
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...I criticized him for doing. I have joined Eliot's utilitarianism, affirming with him that the purpose of education, thus the definition, is always stated in keeping with a culture's concept of human purpose (which is finally religious and theological in nature). I, too, am stopping short of that quest in the modern culture of diversity. I hope others are not as cowardly as T.S. Eliot and I.
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