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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”.