How German philosophy created the modern education system.   Why is education the way it is? Why does the bell ring to signal the end of a lesson? Who invented teacher training? Why do universities combine teaching with research? It might surprise you to learn that the answers to these questions can be found in the writings of early 19th Century German philosophers. This episode looks at the German Idealists, a group including Kant and Hegel, inspired by the Enlightenment and the spirit of Romanticism following the French Revolution, who set the mould for the education systems of today.

• 00:00 - Intro
• 00:58 - Introducing the German Idealists
• 05:59 - Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
• 18:45 - Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776 - 1841)
• 26:29 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 – 1831)
• 45:20 - Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1825)
• 57:34 - Summing up

The Blog that started it all: https://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2021/09/these-were-written-as-quick-readable.html

• Kant bit.ly/3wIBsk9
• Herbart bit.ly/30rdE8w
• Hegel bit.ly/3qGvkYO
• Humboldt bit.ly/2OQzyZS

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