Wilhelm von Humboldts Vorstellung von Bildung

Wilhelm von Humboldt is regarded along with his brother Alexander von Humboldt as one of the last universal scholars He was not only a scholar bu also educational reformers because in the Prussian ministerial bureaucracy he could initiate decisive reform impulses particularly on the The gymnasium and the university as we know them today were founded We will now look at two text excerpts by Wilhelm von Humboldt A clear understanding of education is evident The first excerpt comes from theory of The education of a person This text is a fragment that cannot be precisely dated but is considered part of Humboldt's early work In theory of education the It is said that the last task of our existence is the concept of humanity within ourselves both during the time of our lives and o go beyond that by means of the traces of living activity that we leave behind to provide as much content as possible This task is resolved solely through the connection of our self with the world e most general concise and free interaction This alone is now also the actual standard for evaluation Processing of every branch of human knowledge For only that path ca every one the right one on which the eye rests firmly To be able to pursue progress up to this final goal And here Only the secret that would otherwise remain forever dead and useless may be sought o enliven and to fertilize Humboldt describes it as the las The purpose of our existence is that it is the human being himself who seeks education The motivation for education as a process and a product is therefore an inner development Region and the influence of external factors at the same time Education however does not occur solely through an internal development but through the connection of our I am with the world Today we would say that a person interacts with their environment This connection between human and world should have three Have characteristics Generally as versatile active and lively as possible Acquisition must happen freely There should be free access to the most diverse facets of the world Within the limits of effectiveness e state of 1851 Humboldt writes the true purpose of man is not the which is not determined by changing inclinations but by the eternal and unchanging reason that prescribes it is the highest and most proportionate education of his Forces into a whole Freedom is the first and essential condition for this formation Alone outside of freedom the The development of human powers is something else although closely connected with freedom Variety of situations Also In this second excerpt Humboldt emphasizes education as the true purpose of human beings driven by the inner human drive towards reason This education should represent the most comprehensive and maximum he writes highest and on the other hand a balanced mixture Proportionally most Furthermore Humboldt again mentions two prerequisites that must be fulfilled in order to achieve this education Freedom understood as self-determination and also the accessibility of places Objects sources of information of all kinds and the diversity understood As diversity Education I think clearly has not only a purpose for the individual but for society for the community as a whole Only where there are educated individuals in the Humboldtian sense can culture and humanity even begin to emerge Here we can see that Humboldt thinks about education in a broader context And that I think is the main idea they can take away On one hand the connection of the individual with the world as education and onomed the connection as a basis for culture and humanity entire society