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Meet the educator – Is Schopenhauer one?

The aim of this paper will be to show in what way Nietzsche's reading of Schopenhauer's 'philosophy of education' can shed some more light on education and teaching. Following the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of his most prominent work The World as Will and Representation, which is exactly this year, Schopenhauer was chosen to be the focus of our attempts in this work. Here, we will not only try to outline his thoughts regarding philosophy of education, but will also try to compare and parallel him to more contemporary philosopher of education, John Dewey. We hope to outline some of Schopenhauer's philosophy of education to be quite similar to that of Dewey, especially when tackling with the questions of critical thinking, self- reflective individual, thinking for oneself etc. What stands to be of utmost importance is the fact that Schopenhauer's outlook on education may not be so different from his predecessor Kierkegaard, or of those who came after him, for example, Dewey, Whitehead and Frankena. The primary focus here is to display and support Schopenhauer's perspective on upbringing, to present it as not that much different from existentialist philosophers' outlook in general. Hence, we will discuss some of the most important topics found in his educational approach, but also touch upon the notion of authority as the one that lies with the teacher primarily, and draw some lines of similarity between his views and the sobering reality of today.

Schopenhauer, philosophy of education, Nietzsche, critical thinking, Dewey, self-development, existentialism, individual, educator

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