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Single Idea 22786

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

Full Idea

One of the chief moments in a child's upbringing is discipline, the purpose of which is to break the child's self-will in order to eradicate the merely sensuous and natural.

Gist of Idea

Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 174 add)

Book Ref

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', ed/tr. Wood,Allen W. [CUP 1991], p.211

A Reaction

A standard view for his time, no doubt. No sensible parent doubts that children need to be civilised, and taught to recognise the needs of others. I hope the general aspiration in our society to 'break' a child's self-will has now faded away.

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]