Quo Vadis Educatio Confuciana? Critical Theory and Education
Author：Wen-tuan Chen
Abstract /
"Quo vadis educatio confuciana" attempts to criticize the traditional methods of education adopted by both empiricists and idealists for their errors of either mistaking the objective to be the object of education or degrading the educated to the rang of thing that can be observed, manipulated and transformed. This work tries then to understand education as a that of helping the educateds to recognize their problems and to search for adequate solutions. It contends that human problems emerge permanently, depending on and varying with human relations. Hence, to understand and to solve the problems of education, one has first to detect the genetical process of relation-emergence, the tension born in interest-division between the subject and the object, the subject and other subjects. One has then to search for adequate solution to deal with such a tension. A successful education is defined by its force of helping the educated to dicover problems and solutions. This paper consists of three main parts: the first and the second review of some prevalent modes of understanding of education, while the final part deals precisely with the problematics (or crisis) of education from the point of view of critical theory and constructive realism.