Why should you educate your child?
The education is anchored in our society as a necessity. To educate is to teach an individual the social rules, the language, the adoption of a habit of common life. Parents today want to give their...
Category: Education
Purpose of education: To train man
The goal assigned to education by Comenius is to "train man". One way or another, many other educations were aimed at the same end; but what they pursued was first of all the training of a particular...
Pros and cons of private and public education in Africa
In one of the series of interviews on the right to education conducted on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights , Professor Ann Skelton examines the pros...
The five characters of human nature
The peculiarity of man's nature for Comenius is what distinguishes him from animals. Man was created by God in his own image; he is, therefore, the "most complete and excellent of all" creature ,...
The concept of the educated person
Introduction It is very difficult to say precisely what is meant by the expression educated person . There are several reasons for this. In the French context, we have frequently locked ourselves in...