속담을 통해서 본 교육관 분석과 그 활용 방안

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze proverbs concerned with education, to look into the negative sides of the educational point of view which is inherent in them, and to find out the effective ways to use the value education in order to form more developed and newer educational view. Language is a good material to grasp its society's ways of thinking and behavior patterns. Especially, proverbs are considered to be the core contents in understanding its traditional culture and values as they reflect the folks' wisdom and living philosophy learned by their old experiences and lives. Proverbs convey the folks' wisdom passed down from generation to generation through the metaphoric expressions in the concise fashion, and are also the methods by which we can meet the culture of people who use them because the proverbs contain their ways of thinking and behavior patterns. The view of education may be said to refer to the systemic thinking about the education. Its function and significance can be varied depending upon how we see education. Korean educational view has been directly linked with the features of the educational view that is represented by instrumentalism and egoism. That is, the general public have responded to the educational objective emphasized by the nationalism about education with a series of egoistic and extreme selfish educational point of views, in which they have used the education by the way of moving up the social ladder and some other times surviving and adapting their surroundings. Today is called the lost generation of values, the periods of crisis, or the lost generation of humanity. Proverbs are expected to be useful as the materials of the value education which can contribute to the formation of the healthy education culture. We can understand the Korean values as well as proverbs themselves when we grasp the origin and background of proverbs and connect them with the Korean ways of thinking and behavior patterns. We are also able to raise the thinking skills and good judgment by presenting the problem situations associated with value that is inherent in proverbs and discussing them. The Korean Education should try to recover the meaning of Korean traditional human beings, contributing to the finding the renewal vies of education by in Korea the basic educational meaning on the basis of understanding the meaning of proverbs