Elena Madrussan, At the beginning: the educational bet

 

Starting from the idea of “education as criticism of education”, formulated by Antonio Erbetta, and from the idea of bet, stolen from Pascal’s famous warning, this essay faces the need to consider education as ethic and intellectual commitment. A commitment that is capable to cope either the unexpected and the unfinished which inexorably characterize the existence, or the cruel hypocrisy of simplifying and abstractly rationalizing everything about education. In this sense, the educational bet refers to an education that, as existence, becomes criticism of itself.

 

Elena Madrussan (University of Torino)

 

Published on: For an education as criticism of education N. 17  New Series – Year IX 2013