Sentido de la Vida y Educación: ¿Para Qué Educamos?

Education in history has been the means by which humanity has been able to preserve, reproduce and improve its culture. Since the beginning of Western civilization, the concern for knowledge was the motive and origin of several schools of thought, especially in the Greek world. The phrase of the Delphic oracle "Know thyself" and the epimeleia were the basis of the philosophy and education that Socrates promoted among his disciples. The education of young Greeks was aimed at turning them into virtuous men. In the Middle Ages, education developed in the conventual environment, where its purpose was to make the human being a religious man, a saint. With the arrival of modernity and the advancement of science, the objective of education was the enlightenment of man, through the development of reason. From that time on, science became more specialized and education was fragmented into the study of various disciplines. In this sense, the purpose of this article is to show how education has moved away from its primary objective of providing man with knowledge that allows him to understand himself and the world in which he lives.