Thématique N°9

Creating the Conditions for Learning about Democracy. Reflections on the Practise of Law in the Classroom and School, by Bernard Defrance

Summary

The search for truth and the development of law are precisely the two purposes for which schools should be preparing their pupils. With these two purposes in mind, we are each on opposite ends of the human experience. That is to say, the search for truth involves leisure (schole in Greek), or a disconnection from all concerns of survival, whilst developing law is dependent on the urgent need to settle violent conflicts between people.

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