On the Position of the Teacher with Respect to the School and the Pupil. Social or Individualistic Education?

Abstract

It is argued in this essay that the teacher must treat the pupil as an individuality rather than as a social type. Only in case that a pupil has to learn how to behave socially, can the teacher (in that he is a representative of the school) treat that pupil as a social type. As for the school reform, which demands education to be close to life, teacher and pupil must build a working community, whose members are all to be considered as social types by the school as a social institution.