Alain (Emile Chartier) 1868-1951

Biography

Born in Mortagne au Perche in 1868 and died in Vésinet in 1951.Associate philosophy teacher is in Rouen, Paris Henry IV in high school and college where he teaches Sévigné girls. It is known for its “About” and especially “About Education” in 1932.
His thought is characterized by Cartesian humanism. He is suspicious of all tyrannies liberalainportrait.thumbnail.JPGté and defends the individual against the seductions. It goes to war in 1914, refuses to become an officer, and will return with pacifist convictions.

His ideas on education

Champion of the questioning of certain interpretations of Dees ‘new’, based on desire, plaisr, the game.His thought is characterized by Cartesian humanism. He is suspicious of all tyrannies and defends freedom of the individual against the seductions. He pacifist convictions.There is for him the need to open itself to the world. “Do not close the salvation of the spirit”.The aim of education is to discover humanity in itself.Education is an aid to the achievement of the individual, that is to say an expression of what exists potentially in him, the practice of decision and firmness of free behavior.

It is against the teaching attractive, it’s not about seducing a student, but to address its willingness to grow. The joy and pride come from exercise. Attention to “educate by entertaining” .Attention to the master courtier, to one who seeks to please
“There is no question of taming the little men when it would be for their good. On the contrary must be put in their hands their own learning, which means strengthening in them the will.The child loves for himself the effort. (Other teachers, such as Montessori think so too.)He wants nothing more than to stop being a child. It aims to difficult. He wants the student. Do not be afraid of him déplaire.
Do not flatter him, do not cheat. No complacency, it needs to be estimated and estimate. Learning is patience, privations, waiting, courage.

He criticizes psychology. It is not enough to know, must be raised first. We know the child in instructing. “This is by training them to sing I know if a musician”

Each child’s own nature, it is to propose a common culture but he is not going to lose. A culture needs to flourish differences rather than uniformity.