Education and the Social Order (Routledge Classics), by Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attempted to create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure of this practical vision, it did not stop him from continuing to strive towards inventing and arguing for a system of education free from repression. In Education and the Social Order, Russell dissects the motives behind educational theory and practice, and in doing so lays out original and controversial arguments for the reformation of the education of the individual.
Education and the Social Order (Routledge Classics), by Bertrand Russell- Published on: 2015-10-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 5.25" w x .50" l, .79 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
About the Author
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Thoughtful, cutting, clear By Michael Willers Reading this book was a strange and illuminating experience. On the one hand, strange, because so many of Russell's thought came to roost into my mind and seemed so natural and so clear to me that I felt I had been thinking them all my life. On the other hand, illuminating, because so many of Russell's ideas were so unfamiliar and odd, and yet when put all together it is as if someone is turning on the light for the first time. Russell strikes at the heart of all that cripples education and development of the whole person, by mercilessly pointing out that the existence of the debilitating agents and uncovering the way they undermine human growth and potential. He does not stop there, however. He also praises those unique aspects of education that make us stronger, thoughtful, more critical -- those aspects, as he says, may yet save our civilization. The book is slightly outdated in part, in that there is a whole, in-depth chapter on education in the USSR, but this is nonetheless interesting from a historical aspect. The crux of this book, however, is timeless, invaluable, and well the worth the read.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Children should become 'human' beings and true citizens By Luc REYNAERT In this hard-hitting, superbly sarcastic/cynical, and still highly relevant text, B. Russell gives his outspoken view on `free' education and its inveterate enemies, the State (government) and the Church (religion).Individualism v. CitizenshipThere is a huge cleavage between those who consider education primarily in relation to the individual psyche, and those who consider it in relation to the community.The cultivation of the individual mind is absolutely not the same thing as the production of a useful citizen. Nonetheless, it may be held that pupils will ultimately be better citizens if they are first aware of all their potentialities as individuals before they descend into compromises and practical acquiescences of the life of the polis. Education in citizenship is shortsighted, because it will stunt the individual in order to make him a convenient tool in the hands of the government.FreedomFreedom in education (= free speech) is the most difficult element to secure in the polis. State and Church are implacable enemies of both intelligence and real virtue. Moreover, any creed is harmful in education when exempt from intellectual, scientific scrutiny.Both institutions understand all too clearly that a world of real human beings would make short work of the existing social system, with its wars, its oppressions, its economic injustices, its horror of free inquiry and its superstitious moral code.Government (the State)All the governments of the world adopt elaborate methods of concealing truths which they consider undesirable. They inflict various forms of penalty upon those who spread knowledge which is thought bad for them. Governing elites are fundamental hypocrites (when the Transvaal was found to contain gold, the British invaded it. Lord Salisbury assured the nation that `we seek no goldfields'!)Patriotism and Nationalism imply that the most important duty of young men is homicide. Also, the citizens who shout for the flag are, in general, unaware of the sinister forces that have led them to do so.Religion (the Church)Churches demand assent to propositions which no unbiased person can believe, and to a morality which is so cruel that it can only be accepted by those inhibited by dogma. One example: the Catholic Church holds that a priest can turn a piece of bread into the Body and the Blood of Christ by talking Latin to it.Religion is a conservative force and preserves much of what was bad in the past. It supported slavery and now capitalistic exploitation. It minimizes such evils as poverty and disease, on the ground that they belong only to this earthly life. Its sex education makes happiness in adult life impossible.Ultimately, Bertrand Russell ask the crucial question: Is a man to be condemned as immoral and subversive, because he wishes to substitute all those sinister elements in education by intelligence, sanity, kindliness and a sense of justice?Bertrand Russell's monumental free speech still towers mightily above the mass of corrupt propagandists and shamelessly biased observers of the actual political and economic scene (a screen for those sinister interests which B. Russell lambastes mercilessly in this text).A must read.
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