Questão 1818224

The False Principle of Our Education or, Humanism and Realism.

By Max Stirner

The essential advantage of scholars, “universal

education”, should be beneficial to everyone.

However, one asks, what is universal education other

than the capacity, trivially expressed, “to be able to talk

about everything,” or more seriously expressed; the

capacity to master any material? School was seen to

be left behind by life, since it not only removed from

the people but even neglected universal education

with its students in favor of exclusive education, and it

failed to have mastery in school of a great deal of

material which is impulse on us by life. School, one

thought, it does has to design our reconciliation with

everything life offers and to care for it so that none of

the things with which we must some day concern (or

worry) ourselves will be completely strange to us and

beyond our power to master. Therefore familiarity with

the things and situations of the present was solicited

most vigorously and a pedagogy was brought into

fashion which must find application to everyone

because it satisfied the common need of everyone to

find themselves in their world and time. The basic

principles of human rights in this way gained life and

reality in educational spheres: equality, because that

education embraced everyone, and freedom, because

one became familiarized with one’s needs and

consequently independent and autonomous.

Texto modificado de Principios Falsos de Nossa Educação. Stirner, Max. The False Principle of Our Education or, Humanism and Realism. Traduzido por Hans G. Helms do original Das unwahre Prinzip unserer Erziehung, oder: Humanismus und Realismus. Rheinische Zeitung. 1842. Editoratika 1997.

Nas linhas 4 e 5 o autor diz “since it not only removed from the people but even neglected universal education”.