Around the idea of education. A look from the Kantian pedagogical reflection

Abstract

In this paper I shall adress a series of remarks made by Kant in the context of his pedagogical reflections in order to show the fundamental character that the idea (or ideal) of education must assume in every pedagogical project. The kantian conception of a perfectible human nature —and directly related to it, the idea of a progress of the social institutions, which can be reached through the improvement of educational institutions— represents, for Kant, a fundamental principle of every pedagogical enterprise.