공교육과 “공”을 사는 삶

Abstract

Usually we think public education is national education. Obviously public education has relation of national education. But, today we have to rethink what is “public”, because today crisis in public education has not been limited to the collapse of schooling, but extended to problems rooted in the public life. In help of Mathews, I can understand the relation of“ the public”and public education in history of America. And Dewey tell us the subject of education is not the nation but the society. The subject of public education is not an individual and the nation, but “we”. We are not an individual but the member of the community. The living of“ Public”is living in community. Citizens are people who act like citizens, that is, without asking permission. The life is priority over laws. So, we must seek to live“ public”, first of all. At this time, we ask us what is“ public”? The reviving of public education, I think, must be started by renewing of our life. To be community gives vividness to public education and our life.