Essay on the Future of Education
The new era of education shall reconnect with the fundamental conception of education, the one of the Age of Enlightenment, Education : a term that has suffered from a deep change in its meaning since the Age of Enlightenment to become a concept inflected and denatured. There remains only the shadow of this ideal of the Age of Enlightenment that Normand Baillargeon defines as « [..] a bet made on the reason and the knowledge, as privileged instruments of individual emancipation and collective progress, of a bet on the virtues of equal opportunities, a bet on the freedom and value of individuals. These multiple bets seemed reasonable and it was soon considered that they went hand in hand with a certain ideal of participatory democracy, which in turn involved a very particular ethical model, the one of discussion and deliberation involving individuals capable of a certain intellectual and moral attitude towards social, political and economic issues, problems and debates that affect