About science, craft and art in education

the article raises the question of the nature of pedagogy – pedagogy as an art, as a craft and as a science. The content of the first, second and third is deployed in reality as the basic ones for it. The article substantiates the position about the interaction of the teacher and the pupil as a kind of aesthetic-metaphysical – contemplative - reality (the idea goes back to the works of ancient philosophers and thinkers of the Christian Middle Ages). The human personality is interpreted as an aesthetic-metaphysical substance, which in its formation and development requires relying on the reality of the perfect (authentic or beautiful, in Plato's style) in addressing itself. Taking into account what is formulated in education and turns it primarily into art (figurative and artistic creativity of metaphysical status). The appeal to the personality in education on a outlined basis has a beneficial effect on its development. The article states the appeal of secular (European) pedagogy (since the Enlightenment) to the axiom-epistemology of science, and in its one-sided interpretation (orientation to rationalization of social processes as a condition for their effectiveness). The critique of the modern domestic school is given due to its total focus on the rationalization and pragmatization of the processes of education and training (strict goal setting, standardization of the content of education, certification in the USE format, educational competencies, the beginning of competition, constraint of professional freedom of the teacher, etc.). The general inattention of the school to the genuine in the student's personality (its metaphysics) is fixed. It is argued that the above displaces people with a talent for pedagogical activity from school. It is proposed to radically change the direction of the school's activities – in the direction of its appeal to the student's personality on an aesthetic-metaphysical (contemplative) basis. The methodology of the work is the idealistic–substrate reflection of A.A. Gagaev.

man, metaphysics, pedagogy, history, craft, science, art, contemplation, modernity, domestic school