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Awakening spirituality
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By : David Lucas - Friday, 14 January 2011 00:00 |
 Greeks called it education "paideia", a transmission of knowledge full of sensibility, values, ideals, far away from actual instruction characterized by a simple accumulation of technical notions. Actual school, is reduced to an institution for the transfer of these information. It does not seem to represent an oasis of life where blooms freedom anymore but on the contrary a place threatened by rhetoric and the technicist drifting of the world which includes it.
The teacher, became a technician thinks in term of process: when the didactic gets rid of the humanities we became simple possessors of tools which reproduce an armada of process and not an educator, complains David Lucas.
The actual world seems to find its most correct characteristic in what René Guénon called "the reign of quantity". In this reduction to quantitative, to this standardization, school as an institution, is inevitably responsible although it should represent the place where the seeds of awakening should be generously distributed.
 
If anonymity, standardization, statistics, figures are the reality to which the child will have to face, what are the seeds of hope to find a harmonious reflection about life and its initiation ? And especially, what aspects of the modern world crisis do we find in education ? What is the role of the educator ? Can psychology represent a medium way of learning ? What lessons can we draw from that crisis although the necessity to give a meaning to our children became more than ever clear ?
 
Answer in this round table of 42 minutes, presented by Virginie Durand in which Jean Biès and David Lucas, two thinkers, two "awakeners" who belong to two different generations, confront their experience and put them in perspective.
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