(article ) What is Education?

Graham Oliver

Philosopher of education and educational theorist. Trained at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and taught at the University of Waikato for thirty years. Specialisation in the purpose of education as equipping learners to develop worthwhile lives for themselves as justified by mutual and self-respect for their intrinsic value as human beings.

Our store of educational ideas

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[starbox id=RGO] Our store of educational ideas From the beginning, the idea of vocational training has sat uncomfortably with the idea of education. The idea of education was invented in Classical Athens, some thousands of years after schools were devised. Its greatest expression, and still unrivalled, is in Plato’s work, The Republic, in which two […]

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[starbox id=RGO] Our store of educational ideas From the beginning, the idea of vocational training has sat uncomfortably with the idea of education. The idea of education was invented in Classical Athens, some thousands of years after schools were devised. Its greatest expression, and still unrivalled, is in Plato’s work, The Republic, in which two

And so we begin – the purpose of education

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[starbox id=RGO] And so we begin – the purpose of education Here we will renew the purpose of education for our day.  Its  purpose should flow from the value of learners themselves – from what we owe to them because of their value, and from what learners owe to themselves as intrinsically worthwhile human beings.

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[starbox id=RGO] And so we begin – the purpose of education Here we will renew the purpose of education for our day.  Its  purpose should flow from the value of learners themselves – from what we owe to them because of their value, and from what learners owe to themselves as intrinsically worthwhile human beings.

Held hostage to our talents

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[starbox id=RGO] Held hostage to our talents When I was a graduate student, I resolved my lodging arrangements by being a houseparent in an arts academy located on the university campus. The academy took talented high school students on scholarship and gave them an opportunity to develop their performing art. Principally, it was a dance

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[starbox id=RGO] Held hostage to our talents When I was a graduate student, I resolved my lodging arrangements by being a houseparent in an arts academy located on the university campus. The academy took talented high school students on scholarship and gave them an opportunity to develop their performing art. Principally, it was a dance

The one good thing about indoctrination

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The one good thing about indoctrination In the early years of working with this theory I gave little attention to working out educational content or process in much detail. Having made the central educational distinctions, and having laid out the justification in terms of respect for persons, I would spend the bulk of my courses

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The one good thing about indoctrination In the early years of working with this theory I gave little attention to working out educational content or process in much detail. Having made the central educational distinctions, and having laid out the justification in terms of respect for persons, I would spend the bulk of my courses