Martin Buber as an Educational Philosopher

Martin Buber: Educational Philosopher Shalom. This video is about Martin Buber, one of great modern theologians, Existentialist Theologians, influenced Judaism and Christianity in the history of education. In 1925, at the Third International Educational Conference in Heidelberg, Germany, he gave a paper. And it was really the first time that Existential Philosophy treated education as a serious topic. And, I just wanted to review the 10 points of his educational philosophy because I think they are very helpful in modern times. 1. Teaching is inseparable from deed. Learning is useless without living, and the pure amassing of knowledge is not education, it must lead the deeds. Kind of based on the Jewish idea of one of the Jew accepted the Torah, they said (non-English), we will do it and we will understand it. It is in the deed, learning for deed. 2. Educational character is the supreme call of the educational endeavor. And, that is kind of based on a Hebrew word for education, it is from a verse and proverbs which says, “Train the child in the way they should go, and when they grow older they will not depart from it.” The word is Chinukh, which can mean to train and also the Department of Education is the Department of Chinukh in Israel. And finally, we have Hanukkah based on the same group which means dedication or rededication. 3. Buber said, the teachers only access to the totality of the student is to win his confidence. 4. The major task of education is to awake in students to the desire to assume responsibility for their actions. 5. Adult educations is very important. Ordinary teachers, Buber said would not qualify to teachers of adults. We found that the teachers had Institute for the educational adults in 1949. 6. The teaching of values is important. Buber’s most cherished the values with those inherited and the Torah, and the Books of the Prophets. 7. Genuine education inspires to educate students so that their inquired knowledge becomes an organic part of their whole life. 8. Good teachers exert to influence not only by what they teach, but through their teaching personality. 9. Teachers are not to dictate to students but should permit them to reach their own conclusions. 10. Genuine education is not achieved through prescription but by example. We count on education more than counting an educational strategy was the quality, integrity, and sincerity and commitment of the teacher, his identity with his students and his ability to see the world from the student’s point of view. Martin Buber’s Educational Philosophy.