Are we adults?
The Generosity of Education
Lecture by Josep Maria Esquirol
Debate
“We haven’t been expelled from any paradise. We’ve always been outside.” This indisputable fact underpins Josep Maria Esquirol’s philosophy of generosity, the necessary corollary for a philosophy of resistance. What kind of education can prepare us to brave the elements? How can we come to terms with imperfection and fragility?
The present-day social and “cultural” context promotes a sort of no-limits ideology, which is none other than a consumerist adaptation to the idea of progress. This no-limits ideology opens up the way, on the one hand, to the priority of immediacy in a present that is already jeopardised by general acceleration and, on the other, to a horizon which, striving to appear as beguiling and fascinating, is bereft of any kind of hope. In this situation, striving to attain a culture that is creative in both its form and its limits is a matter of urgency. The essence of education and the way to personal maturity is defined precisely within, and on the basis of these parameters.
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The Generosity of Education
What kind of education can prepare us to brave the elements? How can we come to terms with imperfection and fragility? The present-day social and “cultural” context promotes a sort of no-limits ideology, which is none other than a consumerist adaptation to the idea of progress. This no-limits ideology opens up the way, on the one hand, to the priority of immediacy in a present that is already jeopardised by general acceleration and, on the other, to a horizon which, striving to appear as beguiling and fascinating, is bereft of any kind of hope. ...
