O SENTIDO DA EDUCAÇÃO EM MARTIN BUBER

Abstract

The Meaning of Education in Martin Buber addresses the need for the teacher-student relationship in school now to go beyond the educational field entering the field of dialogue, envisioning the transformation of classrooms into small communities that will amount to a larger community: the community-above social. This phenomenon can be accomplished through dialogue, which encompasses the main elements of inter-human: authenticity, presence, openness and genuine conversation. These aspects are constitutor of Buber's dialogic philosophy behind that, in essence, a considerable concern about the human sphere of relationships, shattered by the objectification of man in modern times. The philosopher's meeting sees the man as an inherently relational, within this perspective, the upgrade of its existence is effected through the first two words that express two forms of man is put before the world and ahead on others. In the word-first I-Thou man enters into a relationship, the word-I-it principle he experiments the other or the world they are. According to Buber, there is a predominance of one of the words, since both are necessary for the consummation of human existence. However, in modernity, buoyed by rising industrial capitalism, man has focused increasingly on relations with his neighbor, causing the detachment and the consequent loneliness. For Buber, the man experiences a genuine process of dehumanization. Jewish faithful to Martin Buber Hasidism removes the elements of this doctrine for much of his reflections. Thus, the I-Thou relationship is openness to the relationship with the eternal Thou - God. According to this thinker to each edge of the Tu the man glimpses the eternal. An idea which conceives of human existence in connection with the absolute. The more a man turns away from his neighbor, the more it moves away from the eternal Thou, needing to rediscover each other and therefore with the Divine, to redeem his humanity. Buber not only conceives of God as a principle or as an idea, but as' person 'who enters a direct relation to men "through creative acts, revealing and liberating'. Once exposed, in reflection buberiana modernity is characterized primarily by the eclipse of God, yet eternal You definitely did not disappear, it's just hidden in the light of the excessive objectification that man has succumbed. In fact it is in man can only be redeemed through conversion or through the formation of character. The character is the object of education, the educational function is the formation of character and meaning of education is life in the community. In this view, the teacher assumes a place of considerable importance, the influence of his word and his actions genuinely dialogical, the formation of the characters that will be the new community, whose purpose is the true Life. Life in the community is way by which men can build a legitimate relationship between humans disclaims any interests other than a life lived in community.