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Abstract

I examined in this paper the reason why classical education has been inefficient in Korea, especially focusing on western classical education. I suggested three cause for this problem as follows: language, religion, distance. I called this three 'structural restrictions', and insisted that these must be considered and remembered when we construct the contents of classical education and extract the materials for that education. First, language: this problem results from the simple fact that classics are written in classical languages. In the west, major classical languages are three: Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. But each of them has its own origin and stages of development which are very different with one another. Moreover, they are all extremely difficult for contemporary Koreans to approach and understand sufficiently. To this problem I proposed the minimum knowledge about classical languages and reading selected Korean translations from original languages. Second, religion: I suggested with regards to this matter that Old Testament in Hebrew and New Testament in Greek must be included in the catalogue of classical texts for education in Korea, because Testaments are not only the object of religious faith but also the sources of essential western culture. Lastly, distance: I emphasized the cooperation of Korean education and geography and history education because we must overcome the problems that the circumstances which shaped western classics are distant from us both in time and in space.