On Current Education

English Editorial (translated by Silvia Benso)

Abstract

What urges us to question the concept of education is its spreading to all realms of reality, its losing the well-defined boundaries that characterized it previously, its self-presentation as unavoidable and at the same time as extremely problematic.

A common and generally accepted analysis of this phenomenon ties it to the decline of authority, to the polytheism of values, to complexity and change. Educational sources are not reliable because they lie in the past, and the past is in discontinuity with the present.

The attempt we make in these pages is, as usual, a slalom between the need to historicize concepts and gather from time the features that reshape them constantly as common notions, and the need to guard their being bearers of the truth, to guard their revelatory and not only expressive nature, as Pareyson would say.

In this sense, one should not build but rather protect the potentialities inherent in the concept of education. The current education does not satisfy its own very concept. We try to work on this.