Published: 2021-10-27

The praise of self-instruction in the context of loneliness and solitude – against the context of Władysław M. Kozłowski’s concept of self-education

Katarzyna Wrońska
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.1.13

Abstract

The author considers the present sense and meaning of self-instruction – in connection to the issue of being alone and solitary – against the context of one of historical concepts of self-education in Poland. Aloneness as a mode of human existence, of a thinking being, is a philosophical starting point of our analysis. It is assumed that education has an important role to play in learning to think, which, however, requires being alone (at home with oneself). Therefore, the author proposes to recall one of the concepts of self-instruction developed in Poland during the partitions and interwar period, as an example of experiencing oneself and learning to think in solitude; not outside of education but within it. The hermeneutic analysis and interpretation of the problem allows to demonstrate the validity of self-instruction as a necessary humanizing complement to school education in Poland, balancing between the extremes of encyclopaedism and instrumentalism. Finally, it allows gathering several arguments for education beyond professionalization and education that promotes the human condition as vita activa.

Keywords:

self-instruction; solitude; aloneness; thinking; self-education; education

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Wrońska, K. (2021). The praise of self-instruction in the context of loneliness and solitude – against the context of Władysław M. Kozłowski’s concept of self-education. Pedagogical Forum, 11(1), 211–226. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2021.1.13

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