EDUCATION AND TRAINING BETWEEN ETHICS AND THE MARKET – NOTES AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Keywords:
Person Formation, Responsibility, Education, InstrumentalizationAbstract
This work explores concepts found in Martin Buber’s writings to support a reflection on education committed to the concrete lives of individuals. Buber emphasizes that thought must be anchored in vital reality and lived experience, linking life, knowledge, and responsibility, and must be oriented toward action. This approach is crucial to prevent thought from becoming alienated from its surrounding context. The core of his work rests on the distinction between the I–Thou mode (in which the Other is presence and revelation) and the I–It mode (in which the Other is objectified and instrumentalized). The formation of the person is tied to encounter—when placed in concrete conditions of dialogue, we learn to respond. Education, as an essential domain of dialogue, must preserve freedom and mutual trust, seek coherence between thought and action, and oppose the mercantile and fragmented logic of contemporary education, which tends to highlight the individual to the detriment of the person.
