

It is ethical in that it must constantly ask what is better or best for sake of the one who is growing up, for both their present and their future. more This book sees teaching and educating specifically as an ethical, interrelational, and human art and calling. This book sees teaching and educating specifically as an ethical, interrelational, and human art. This book, which contains both a translation of the introduction to his 1826 lectures on education and five chapters by contemporary scholars on Schleiermacher and his introduction, represents an initial contribution in correcting this oversight. But while Schleiermacher’s achievements in hermeneutics (e.g., Schleiermacher 1826/ 1998), theology (e.g., Schleiermacher 1799/1988), and the formation of the research university (e.g., Schleiermacher 1808/2017) are increasingly well documented in English, his contributions to education and pedagogy remain all but unknown. However, he is also known- at least among students and scholars in Northern Europe- as the founder of pedagogy as a modern academic discipline. more Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834) is widely regarded not only as the founder of modern hermeneutics and of liberal Protestant theology, but also as the cofounder of the first modern German university in Berlin (with Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose name the university subsequently adopted). Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768–1834) is widely regarded not only as the founder of m.
