The Freedom As the Purpose of the Education: Traditional and Postmodernist Vision

Praca recenzowana / Peer-reviewed paperThe article is an attempt of the evaluation, which from pedagogic theories: traditional or postmodernist better serves the freedom of the man. The author determines the freedom as possibility of making everything what is wanted. There are two roads to the freedom: to enhance one’s possibilities and to correct one’s desires. The second road concerns the upbringing. The freedom is being achieved thanks to desire for the duty. A freedom is an accepted duty. An internal nature of man is the source of his duty. If the man wants it, what he should, then he can do everything what he wants. The man must discover and accept his internal nature in order to become entirely free, because it is the source of his duty. If the teacher is helping with it, he is helping on the way to the freedom. Traditional pedagogy is recommending such a road to the freedom and postmodernist is rejecting