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12.29.2008

Education for Freedom or for Kingdom

Authentic education is for liberation and emancipation from the closed-in particularities of one's specific historical and social situation into the wide-open possibilities of humanity's understandings, imaginations, and desirings as a whole.

진정한 교육이란 한 인간이 처한 특정한 역사적, 사회적 상황에 닫혀진 특수성들로 부터 해방키키고 자유케 해 인간의 이해와 상상, 욕구들의 너른 가능성으로 인도하는 것이다.

Summarized by Nicolas Wolterstorff from Oakeshott, "Education: The engagement and Its Frustration," in Education and the Development of Reason, edited by R. F. Dearden, P. H. Hirst, and R. S. Peters (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972), pp. 19-59.

"Education is by a kingodm and for citizenship in that kingdom." Education is always religious in its import. the situation is not that the Christian educator practices committed education while everyone else practices neutral eduction; ultimately everyone practices committed education.
The goal of Christian education for Jellema was to initiate the student into the Christian mind.
Students must be freed from the bondage of thinking with the mind of modernity and led to think with the Christian mind.

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