The main issue imo is that not all people want to be educated. Especially children, who without adequate supervision or parental indoctrination, can find sitting in a class room rather tedious. And then there are all the adults who somehow are still children and never really became adults, in that their minds are undisciplined and they enter into society unwillingly, and disinclined to accept any sort of adult responsibility. I guess what I'm saying is that before education, there must be adequate parenting.
Yes, definitely, before you get to K12 education ("schooling") -- and all the while during! -- parenting and family is incredibly important. What used to be called socialization and enculturation for engaging as adults in a wider society is also foundational for ongoing adult education: lifelong learning. Civil society and policy people today talk about things like this under the rubric: "fabric of society." Along with the Problem of Education, for both youth and adults, there is, for sure, the Problem of Social Fabric. So far as I know, Adler never addressed this issue. I can't believe it wasn't a problem in the 1940's, '50's, '60's, 70's!
The main issue imo is that not all people want to be educated. Especially children, who without adequate supervision or parental indoctrination, can find sitting in a class room rather tedious. And then there are all the adults who somehow are still children and never really became adults, in that their minds are undisciplined and they enter into society unwillingly, and disinclined to accept any sort of adult responsibility. I guess what I'm saying is that before education, there must be adequate parenting.
Yes, definitely, before you get to K12 education ("schooling") -- and all the while during! -- parenting and family is incredibly important. What used to be called socialization and enculturation for engaging as adults in a wider society is also foundational for ongoing adult education: lifelong learning. Civil society and policy people today talk about things like this under the rubric: "fabric of society." Along with the Problem of Education, for both youth and adults, there is, for sure, the Problem of Social Fabric. So far as I know, Adler never addressed this issue. I can't believe it wasn't a problem in the 1940's, '50's, '60's, 70's!