PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

Philosophy of Education Robert Ulich The book is intended primarily as an aid to teachers in the greatest and most difficult of all tasks-to set the mind and spirit free. The author has presented substantial material concerning the basic philosophic issues and aspects of education which every prospective teacher should, sooner or later, think about. Where and at what level the text may best be used will depend on a number of things: the program of study, the talent and background of the students, the degree of challenge desired, and so on. It is hoped that the concepts will come within reach even of students who have not thought formally about the philosophic foundations of education; yet the book would prove stimulating to those of wider experience and reading. The writing has sprung, of course, from deeply held convictions. The survival of democracy depends on a combination of equality and quality and that we will lose the best, if we do not combine respect for the “common man” with a joyful appreciation of the unusual and excellent. The author is convinced that human progress depends on the co-operation between critical rationality and experimental curiosity, on the one hand, and a sense for those forces in man and life which reach beyond the merely given. Those who insist on nothing but the present and the positive are, essentially reactionary. Extract the courage of transcendence and disciplined imagination from the person and his community, and soon you will have nothing but a barren mass of humanity. Reason without faith loses breath and breadth, whereas faith without reason loses self-control and intellectual conscience. Both then lose contact with the fast reality of life and consequently move farther and farther from that ultimately unattainable, yet so vital and if neglected so cruel, principle that we call truth.

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