T. Romein, Education and Responsibilityを読んで

Education is deeply concerned with developing a quality of responsibility in man. The author wants to make clear the problem of responsibility in a free society in transition and to give the right and proper position to the Christian idea of education by comparing and contrasting some of the outstanding contradictory world views in American education today. The contents are as follows: I) Progressivism, 1) Progressivism in Outline, 2) A Pragmatic Concept of the Nature of Man, 3) A Progressive Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility. II) Classical Humanism, 4) Classical Humanism in Outline, 5) A Greek Concept of the Nature of Man, 6) A Classical Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility. III) Educational Reconstructionism, 7) Educational Reconstructionism in Outline, 8) A Social Concept of the Nature of Man, 9) A Radical Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility. IV) Education, the, Community and Christian Faith, 10) Education, the State, and Christian Faith, 11) Reformation and Thomistic Concepts of the Nature of Man, 12) Education and Neo-Reformation Christian Faith, 13) A Theological Solution to the Problem of Developing Responsibility, 14) Education, the Commuity and Christian Faith. The broad historical and theoretical perspective and the solid foundation of this book deserves high evaluation. However, this study made in that part of the world where the Christian tradition is deeply rooted has something incompatible for us, the Japanese, who lack such tradition. We feel that our approach to education from the Christian point of view is inevitably different from this study, but the author does give us important suggestions for solving our problems