What is Education? Author: [Germany] Karl Jaspers Publisher: Life·Reading·New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore

This is a collection of German philosopher Jaspers' thoughts on education, covering the nature, types, tasks, methods, possibilities and boundaries of education, especially the concept and tasks of university education, etc. The book is full of Jaspers' insights on education, such as true education is not the accumulation of knowledge and intellectual training, but the education of people, the education of the soul, and the whole education; he advocated the Socratic way of education, emphasizing equal respect and mutual enlightenment between teachers and students; he emphasized that the purpose of education is to maintain independent and free personal will and the unremitting pursuit of truth, and proposed the method of authentic education.

Karl Jaspers (February 23, 1883-February 26, 1969) was a German existentialist philosopher, psychologist and educator, and a representative of existentialist educational thought. His major works include The Idea of ​​a University (1946) and What is Education, which reflect his existentialist educational thought.