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2014
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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For centuries literature, not only pedagogical texts, have reflected a dispute about a place where to teach children:
at home or at school. One could say that school teaching came out victorious from this dispute. More recently,
movements arose across the world aiming to reverse this process and calling for a return to the beginnings, one
could say – or to home teaching.
This problem occurred in pedagogical thought in Antiquity. Opinions on this subject were put forth by Cato the
Elder, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and Quintillianus. Quintillianus was a proponent of public education and his
views constituted an issue for many thinkers across modern Europe (Maffeo Vegio, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Juan
Luis Vives). Polish thinkers, too, often read Quintilian’s works, citing his arguments and views. These were Sebastian
Petrycy of Pilsen, Erazm Gliczner Skrzetuski, and Szymon Maricius. Mikołaj Rej was opposed to school teaching.
At the end of the First Polish Republic, people also wondered about this problem, although voices in favor of
public education were more and more pronounced. Homeschooling was supposed to be an introduction to school
education, as Ignacy Potocki saw it. This problem also appears in nineteenth-century writings, including the works
of Ignacy Lubicz Czerwiński.
The discussion on where to better educate young people was a part of the Renaissance dispute about the value of
science and skills. The opposite (as was believed) side was taken by philosophers – school people and politicians –
men of action. On the one hand there was a contemplative life devoted to approximating the truth and acquiring
knowledge: this was the school model and school education. On the other hand there was active life, which was
understood as involvement in public or economic activity. In this case, school knowledge was criticized as useless
and theoretical and therefore a need for a different way of educating young people was emphasized, including in
family homes, by parents or teachers and educators hired by them.
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home education, school education, old Polish period
Citation
Studia Edukacyjne, 2014, nr 31, s.45-58
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978-83-232-2781-6
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1233-6688