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Single Idea 19979
[filed under theme 25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / a. Aims of education
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Full Idea
Just as the purpose of education in monarchies is to ennoble men's hearts, so its purpose in despotic states is to debase them. In despotic states education must be servile.
Gist of Idea
In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them
Source
Baron de Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws (rev. 1757) [1748], 04.03)
Book Ref
Montesquieu,Baron de: 'Selected Political Writings', ed/tr. Richter,Melvin [Hackett 1990], p.137
A Reaction
This is an early insight into the way that all social institutions, such as education, are largely pawns of a larger political system.
The
14 ideas
with the same theme
[what educators should try to achieve]:
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532
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Successful education must go deep into the soul
[Protagoras]
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322
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Intelligence is the result of rational teaching; true opinion can result from irrational persuasion
[Plato]
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2811
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A state is plural, and needs education to make it a community
[Aristotle]
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22588
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A city has a single end, so education must focus on that, and be communal, not private
[Aristotle]
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2847
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The aim of serious childhood play is the amusement of the complete adult
[Aristotle]
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11150
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain an idea without accepting it
[Aristotle]
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19979
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In monarchies education ennobles people, and in despotisms it debases them
[Montesquieu]
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8106
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In raising a child we must think of his old age
[Joubert]
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22786
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Children need discipline, to break their self-will and eradicate sensuousness
[Hegel]
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7224
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We need individual opinions and conduct, and State education is a means to prevent that
[Mill]
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14845
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Don't crush girls with dull Gymnasium education, the way we have crushed boys!
[Nietzsche]
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23851
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Education is essentially motivation
[Weil]
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4247
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It is a mark of our having ethical values that we aim to reproduce them in our children
[Williams,B]
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22369
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Are students consumers or products of education?
[Fisher]
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