Kant On Education

Kant’s education evokes a passage from animality to humanity. In this way, he claims that

education consists of training with direction giving thus an important role to the educators ; so

as to give meaning to a person’s life as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said.

It is an inherent need for a person then to have an order, a system and a discipline. Of which

discipline represents the most important part of a person’s education because it has a positive

approach to a person’s humanity from the very early ages.

He partitions education in two forms i.e. physical and moral education. Physical involves the

comparison between human and animals including the feeding, care and responsibility

towards each other. On the other hand, moral education aims at making a person, a valuable

citizen the state and nation.

The basic aim of education for Kant can be seen in the same light with Paulo Freire i.e.

enabling the person to attain his historical and ontological vocation. In other words, provide

self-realized persons committed to moral law with continuous efforts, insisting on discipline

in an appropriate time.