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Single Idea 22588

[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education ]

Full Idea

Since the end of the whole city is a single end, it is evident that education too must be one and the same for all, and that its supervision must be communal, not private as it is at present.

Gist of Idea

A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private

Source

Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1337a21)

Book Ref

Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.189

A Reaction

But the end of the city is for all individual citizens to flourish, not for the group to flourish. So presumably education must be tuned to individual capacities and needs, and not just focus on some communal good.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [what educators should try to achieve]:

532 Successful education must go deep into the soul [Protagoras]
322 Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion [Plato]
2811 A state is plural, and needs education to make it a community [Aristotle]
22588 A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private [Aristotle]
2847 The aim of serious childhood play is the amusement of the complete adult [Aristotle]
11150 It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it [Aristotle]
19979 In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them [Montesquieu]
8106 In raising a child we must think of his old age [Joubert]
22786 Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness [Hegel]
7224 We need individual opinions and conduct, and State education is a means to prevent that [Mill]
14845 Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys! [Nietzsche]
23851 Education is essentially motivation [Weil]
4247 It is a mark of our having ethical values that we aim to reproduce them in our children [Williams,B]
22369 Are students consumers or products of education? [Fisher]