ABSTRACT:
This essay argues in favor of the teacher’s formative role, who, as an intellectual ruler, plays an indispensable role in the formation of new generations. First, the essay investigates different forms of reductionism of contemporary education, caused by the invasion of neoliberal corporate governance into educational institutions, and focuses on the impoverishment of the teaching experience. Then, the essay reconstructs some traits of the master’s profile that emerges from the Latin notion of education as instructio, focusing on the ideal of libertas as the core of the formative relationship between master and disciple, that is, between educator and learner. This brief reconstruction seeks to extract some arguments favorable to the formative role of teachers in relation to themselves and their students.
Keywords:
Education; Instructio; Libertas; Teacher; Student