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This book, written by Jacques Rancière, is an important work that questions the education system and focuses on inequalities. Rancière examines how education can be related to the concepts of democracy and freedom and argues that the traditional understanding of education prevents freedom. The book is an important source of reference for those who seek equality and freedom in education.
The apple of philosophy fell on the head of Joseph Jacotot: In 1818, Jacotot, a revolutionary in exile, found a part-time job as a lecturer in French literature in Belgium. He must teach Flemish people who do not speak a word of French, even though he himself does not speak a word of Flemish. A bilingual edition of Fénelon’s “Telemak” comes to his rescue; he guides his “students” to learn French and the book on their own. Jacotot is quick to understand the inevitable result of this strange experiment, which demonstrates that one can teach what one does not know: the equality of those who know and those who do not know, of those who teach and those who learn, of the manual labourer and the intellectual laborer, in short, the equality of intelligences.
Jacques Rancière, who tells this astonishing story and Jacotot’s philosophy, not only presents a very original thought on education, but also makes important criticisms of the notions of social inequality that use the inequality of intelligences and the hierarchy of knowledge as an excuse. “He who educates without emancipating makes stupid,” he says, and Cahil Hoca is a seminal book not only for educators and those who think about the education system, but also for those interested in political philosophy.