Culture and education: the crisis

ENThe essay explores the current questions of education, including the tension between myth and science. The tension reveals the way that science itself becomes intertwined with myth in various ideological forms. This leads to the background of cultures which formal education takes for granted but cannot encompass. The background is the never ending search for self interpretation of the sense of self and world, search for the elusive human essence which appears in a veiled and excessive presence. In this sense there is no essential difference between myth, science, civilized, primitive, ancient and contemporary, traditional and historic. At base, the question pervading human self and world understanding is temporality, not as an object of awareness but as the very ways that this temporality composes specific life worlds. Keywords: education, myth, science, fragmentation, ideology, sense, culture.