Time and Education: from Duration to Time

Abstract

Time and Education: from Duration to Time. – In her present article, Zuzana Svobodová explores the relationship of time, education and tradition. She asks about the nature or essential characteristics of the phenomenon of tradition, time, conversion and education. In the central chapter dealing with time, the author emphasizes the human experience of conversion from homogeneous to disparate time, which is open to all what is newly coming. Furthermore, the author explains the concept of time in the Greek and the Jewish cultures, recalls the symbolic expression and shows their similarity. In the section entitled Education, movement from duration to time, which is a self-act of education, is identified as human process (cultūra) and not the natural one (nātūra), a process that also differs from the previously targeted formation. Education as bringing to the relation with the coming, is a manifestation of responsible human freedom, which is open to (unsecured) future.