Quality in Education or Education in Accordance with Virtue
Keywords:
Aristotle, Education, Politics, Quality, VirtueAbstract
The quality studies in the field of education are mainly investigations connected with the practices of education. In this paper, it is aimed to consider the fact of the quality in education on a theoretical ground. The theoretical ground in question is constituted in the context of Aristotle’s views on the concept of quality and his account of virtue and education. According to Aristotle, one of the kinds of quality is habit and one of the things that are included in the scope of habit is virtue. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the quality of education is its virtuousness and accordance with virtue; for the goodness of any work means that it is done in accordance with the related virtue. Aristotle divides the virtues peculiar to human being into two groups. First of these are the moral virtues, involving the virtues such as courage and temperance. The other one corresponds to the intellectual virtues. The virtues in this group consist of art, science, phronesis, wisdom, and nous. Moral virtues are acquired by means of habituation, intellectual virtues by means of teaching. Generally speaking, both types of virtue are the products of education. For the natural aspect of human being has effect on him/her to an extent and after human being is in a certain structure, everything that remains is depended on education: Some of them are learned by gaining habit, some by listening to [...]
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