ABSTRACT:
In this article I discuss the relevance of the concept of mortality in Hannah Arendt’s reflections on education. The author herself argues that the essence of education is natality, the fact that human beings are born into the world, still I stress that educational activity has at its center the concern with mortality, because, by transmitting the legacy of the world, it aims to contribute to the potential immortality of this place, threatened by oblivion. Thus, education is a privileged space to establish a relationship with the past that can be both harmonious and conflicting, but which feeds resistance to a society increasingly restricted to immediate concerns.
Keywords:
Education; Hannah Arendt; Mortality; Natality; Past