IS IT POSSIBLE TO TEACH HOW TO THINK?

reflections on the conceptions of education and thought in Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This paper proposes a reflection on the relations between education and thought in the light of the ideas of Hannah Arendt. Based on the Arendtian notion that the thought consists on an activity of the spirit, happening through an inner dialogue and in which the subject splits into two in order to examine and give meaning to an experience, the article aims at discussing possible intersections between the formation of new generations and the exercise of thought, discussing the roles of the school and of the teacher. It is, therefore, a philosophical study and its central goal is the reflection on the significance of an education founded on the presentation and insertion of young people and children in the accumulated historical and cultural patrimony, intending to familiarize them with the world and make them aware of the place in which they perceive the world.