Hannah Arendt and the point of education
By Valerie Strauss
My guest is Kenneth J. Bernstein, an award-winning veteran teacher in the Washington D.C. area. He blogs at http://teacherken.dailykos.com/.
By Kenneth Bernstein
Recently while reading a book about teaching, I encountered a quote on education by Hannah Arendt. Here is that quote:
Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their