THE EDUCATION OF NATIONS

The Education of Nation Robert Ulich This book is intended to contribute to an understanding of the forces that have molded the educational ideals and systems of a number of nations. It is historical, because the author is convinced that one cannot comprehend the nature of the educational process without seeing it in its historical context. But this book is also comparative, because only by means of comparison will those features come clearly to light which distinguish the educational evolution in one country from that in others. The combination of the historical and the comparative approach will reveal that despite all differences the so-called Western nations –to speak of them first–have much in common. If this were not so, they could only be described side by side, and not meaningfully compared. All true comparison needs a tertium comparationis. Western nations possess a unifying heritage that reaches through the Middle Ages deep into antiquity, and they all have participated in modern cultural movements that, ascending vertically with the evolution of modern culture, have also spread horizontally – movements like the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, nationalism, and the rise of science and technology. Those nations that for lack of a better term are called in this book the “new nations” (though they often rest on old and venerable traditions, India and China, for example) distinguish themselves from the countries with a primarily European background by the fact that they have not gone though the renaissances that have formed the modern Western culture.

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