근대 초기 학교와 조선인의 지적 욕망: 이광수의 1910년대 문학을 중심으로

Abstract

This study look into the educational system of Chosun in nineteen tenths through the ‘school’ revealed in literatures of Lee Gwangsu and consider the consciousness of Chosun people about this system. In his novels which have school as a background, the passion and idea of him for school are always coexist with the skepticism about education and the isolation. This paper assumes that the ‘school’ represented in the initial novels of Lee Gwangsu shows well his senses for the role of himself as a patriot, writer and teacher. In fact, for many writers of colonial age, teaching students and writing literatures were all they can do for the independence of nation. Therefore, the novels of Lee Gwangsu, which are created between the educational state of Chosun in nineteen tenths and his national summons, reveal the educational culture in those days and in the same time become a data showing what is the source of the writing of intellectuals. For him, schools are not only an agency in which knowledges are transported but also a space in which relationships of teacher and student, schoolmate and fellow are made. From the relations of a master, disciple and friend, Lee Gwangsu proves the reason for being and finds the stronghold of life. Students show the inner scenary of school in colonial age and women out of school is the main body making the emblem of school. For the dislike about the women who could not be educated to be changed into the compassion and finally the feeling of same mind, Lee Gwangsu needed the noble sacrifice of predictor, the tears of women and the sympathy of people. The educational policy processed by Japan aimed to make ‘the subject with loyalty and honesty’. But the students and the main body out of school in the novels of Lee Gwangsu, try to propagate their knowledge within their intellectual background. This framework made out of colonial school, passes through foreign country and turn back to Chosun. The intellectuals of colonial Chosun in nineteen tenths, make their relationship of knowledge and intend to overturn the power of regulation.