Theories of Learning and Managing Behaviour Lecture 1
Ideas and Utopias: what is education for and how does it work? Finding Your 'True North'...
Ideas and Utopias: what is education for and how does it work? Finding Your 'True North'...
How to live ? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body ; in what way to treat the mind ; in what way to manage our affairs ; in what way to bring up a family ; in what way to behave as a citizen ; in what way to utilize those sources of happiness which nature supplies — how to use all our faculties to the greatest advantage of ourselves and others — how to live completely ? And this being the great thing needful for us to learn, is, by consequence, the great thing which education has to teach. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge ; and the only rational mode of judging of an educational course is, to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Herbert Spencer: Education (1861)
Prof. Keri Facer University of Bristol 'What do parents want from an education system?'
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