Abstract

CARVALHO, José Sérgio Fonseca de. From The Ignorant Master to The Initiator: school form and intellectual emancipation. Educ. Real. [online]. 2020, vol.45, n.2, e91817.  Epub June 16, 2020. ISSN 2175-6236.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-623691817.

By narrating the intellectual adventure of Jacotot, Rancière brushes the story against the grains - resorting to the Benjaminian metaphor -, echoing a voice that seemed condemned to oblivion. This text aims at exposing the ways in which Jacotot opposes a stultifying master to an emancipating one, who verifies in the present the equal capacity of everyone to understand the works of human intelligence. In face of this dichotomy, I propose an intermediate image: the master as an initiator, for whom an educational process committed to the equality principle cries out for both the intellectual emancipation and the intergenerational transmission of a legacy of symbolic experiences that provides durability to a world of historical achievements.

Keywords : Emancipation; Equality; Joseph Jacotot; Jacques Rancière; Hannah Arendt.

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