Education

Details and knowledge are important, as in every field of life, the habit of actively using well understood principles is the final key to success. Whitehead In these lines, although it relates specifically to higher education, differences are evident between education and data memory, and an education that is intelligent and search activity paira continue learning skills and functionally avail-ner information, or devise new truth if necessary. The consideration of knowledge as fixed also determines esci-tion between child and adult. Usually we link education and learning, with children. Ebay wanted to know more. (This has already been observed Mannheim). Because the adult (or grown) was precisaimente which did not have to go to school, who had received the basic fee of knowledge, that dose defiinitiva fundamental truths with which I could rest easy. Being an adult was not having to further study.

There was not reason to seiguir learning. But that was valid for a culture esitatica is not in our time. (Hence it has become as important-called Continuing Education) In the traditional view, the end was only known to the educator. The pupils had no no idea where he was going, or what he was going to teach tomorrow or what it taught him that you were teaching today. If a student thought to ask: why study it?, He calmly replied that for now and learn what would later know why. In what clearly was pointing to the esicision between end and means. The end was outside the ESCO-lar activity. Within the modern concept, the end is internal, immanent in the school activity.