퇴계의 토지사상과 공간의식의 교육적 함의

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate and analyze the land related literatures such as poetry and letters recorded by Toegye during his lifetime, and based on such investigations and analysis it is aimed at reasoning out what is the land thought and space consciousness of Toegye and fostering the human natures of modern people by presenting the educational implications accordingly. The findings support that the land thought of Toegye is related to such idea that "the land and human beings are one body" while the space consciousness has such idea that "the space, land and human beings are one body". Based on these thoughts and to present the educational implications on Toegye's philosophy he conducted after he returned back to his hometown, the first analysis of the reason has reached the following conclusion: First, the reason why Toegye wanted to quit his high class government position and return back to his home town was to prepare his own five principles. Second, Toegye built his house but moved frequently to find the best place to complete the five principles. Third, the reason why Toegye pursued the five principles for the rest of his life was to cultivate talented people to build a right world from them. The educational implications on the philosophy of Toegye are as follows: First, Toegye suggests that an education to cultivate humanity is possible only in natural space and he regarded the cultivation of humanity as a product learned by natural space. Second, in order to foster the best talent, Toegye suggests the beautiful natural space and the importance of the education environment producing high level classical scholars with both learning and virtue according to the thought of "a great person is come from the land soul". Third, Toegye also suggests that a drastic innovation of educational leaders is needed to establish the best education environment so as to foster the best talent.