Abstract

MONTANER, Gerardo Garay. ETD [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.01, pp.82-102. ISSN 1676-2592.

There exists a growing sensitivity which questions “traditional education”, and the difficulties surrounding the intergenerational transmission of cultural contents in particular; the role of the teacher is an important element of this issue. Fortunately we are losing “authoritarian reality” in education, and I go along Vattimo in that the situation strengthens the autonomy of “the new”, but it is the loss of an authority understood as abuse and illegitimate outbreak of power, as expressed by the sensitivity of broad amounts of the populations of the South Cone, especially after the dictatorial regimes. But from the contribution of Arendt’s thought, we are aware that in all educational act there is a need for an authority to guarantee the transmission of the inherited treasures of the past to the future generations; a non-enforced acceptation between the parts that makes communicating the experience possible. In order to do this we have to go deep to develop what education really is, as revealed by its own constitution.

Keywords : Philosophy of the Education; Political Philosophy; Tradition; Transmission; Crisis of the Education.

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