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The Right to a Proper and Effective Educational Experience  


Abstract Category: Laws
Course / Degree: Doctor of Laws
Institution / University: University of Malta, Malta
Published in: 2003


Long Essay Abstract / Summary:

The quest for knowledge knows its beginnings from the day Homo sapiens made his first step upon the sterile earth. It is his innate and insatiable curiosity for discovery and innovation that is the driving force behind this primitive, yet, though nonetheless, noble, search. Its origins lie in seeking to know more about the environment that he lives in. In this way, the more man is aware of the space that he occupies the more easily can he adapt, hence survive. The more that he knows, the more prolific his experience, the greater is his education, therefore the greater is his possibility of survival. And this is really the crux of the whole question ; this is what man has been striving to achieve since he first strutted across the hostile world he was born into.

Necessarily modern man, Homo evolutus as he is now being called, still seeks to adapt, to survive. Though this does not take the form it used to when he was primitive, certainly the scope remains the same. Primitive man would inform himself upon the physical nature of his world, and the strongest and fittest man was guaranteed to successfully sustain the inflictions of the harsh life he must have been subjected to. Today, however strength, in terms of survival, is no longer understood to pertain to the physical sense. It has metamorphosed into the capability of collecting, collating and absorbing information. The need to satisfy a curiosity has become irrelevant in the fast and competitive world of today, where the quest for knowledge of its own right is seen as a superfluous exercise, a waste of time. And therefore what do we understand by an educational experience…if we understand it at all ?. Indeed what the post-modern society understands in obtaining an education, does not surely come close to what experiencing an education may begin to mean. Many of us, in our contemporary world, composed of the silicone translucency of rapid information debunking, executed by most media channels, are continually equating education to the monotonous, and rather drab, task of collecting information. Man is now living in a world illuded by the erroneous conception that the plurality of information available is, tantamount to a truth necessary for survival. Man does not seek truth or knowledge any longer, but rather prefers to have it fed to him.

Modern day scholars would acknowledge that access to information, facilitated by the means available across a simple telephone line, has simultaneously amplified the knowledge at their disposal, while causing an inherent trend towards superficiality. Education today, is taken for granted. It is not the experience of obtaining the education that matters, but the obtaining of an attestation of an education that counts. More so, it is becoming increasingly evident that one does not need to experience an education, which is what is actually for vital for survival, but rather to absorb and dispose of information in order to cater for an ever demanding global society. It is therefore not knowledge or truth that we seek, but bits of data, which, once the desired objectives are reached, are then mercilessly discarded into the oblivion of the turbulent mass of cyberspace. We search unrelentlessly through pages upon pages, we sift, sort and with expertise select and covet as our own. Inevitably my next question to man is, “Quo Vadis ?”.


Long Essay Keywords/Search Tags:
educational ethics, political controversy, right to educational experience, separate juridical personality, education, church schools, state schools, legislation, legal history, inclusive

This Long Essay Abstract may be cited as follows:
Calleja, E. (2003), Social Law, Unpublished Doctor of Laws Long Essay, University of Malta


Submission Details: Long Essay Abstract submitted by Etienne Calleja from Malta on 13-Oct-2003 01:57.
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Etienne Calleja Contact Details: Email: eac1024@onvol.net



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