Pour une pédagogie de l’être

In going rarely beyond the problem raised by the transmission of knowledge, contemporary education methods fatefully tend to ignore the problem of the relationship between school and the individual. However, our philosophical inheritance has constantly considered the question of education in making the parallel that has to be made between what children learn at school and who they are as individuals. Therefore, we would like to try to lay the basis of these philosophical questions, and examine in what way the relationship between school and the individual is linked to education. This leads us of course to a very old philosophical theme, which manages to unite both school and the individual. That is the question of being. Indeed, the educational thinking has often put the ontology of the subject as the ultimate stage in the – learning process, to the point of reaching what we could see as an “education of being”, which – considering being as the philosophical centre of education, grows richer in incredibly fruitful prospects