The Foundations of Education and of the Educated Person

Abstract

The vision of education and the educated person here defended, inspired by the classical tradition, assigns to education the central goal which is the well-being of the person, which is seen as a tranquillity that emerges from self-sufficiency. Such tranquillity is the result of a constitutive luck in relative absence of some sources or forms of disorder, as a certain comparison and fear, seen as their enemies. These visions intend to favour a loving human essence, which is in contrast with what is supposed to be the current predominance of a competitive-hedonistic one, generating an aggressive elitism, unfavourable, both, to education and pedagogy.