평등교육관과 자아존중

Abstract

It is very difficult to accept a conception of strict equality based on personal substantial states and social condition. Rawls maintains that a viewpoint of human equality should be argued by minimum potential for simple contract theory. According to Rawls, we must not depend on natural evidence for discourse about human equality. As equality except human equality is a secondary virtue dependent on ethical judgment, formal egalitarianism does not give any implications for education. The same educational procedures and results do not work for equal education for human dignity. The ideal of equal education must presuppose the self-realization in order to obtain individual self-respect. Self-realization and self-respect don't contain the comparisons of personal goods and individual abilities. Education for real equality must reject the educational viewpoints of liberalism and meritocracy in equality discourse. In equal education based on self-respect we may support Rawlsian difference principle. It regards inequality as justifiable as far as inequality serves to the benefits of the least favored and self-respects of all concerned. So inequality of educational input and output can be accepted if it follows the educational principle of self-realization for self-respect and difference principle.