Revista Portuguesa de Educação (Jan 2006)

Altruísmo e educação: condição, consciência e dignidade

  • Carlos Fernandes Maia

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 2
pp. 185 – 215

Abstract

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The educational act reveals a person’s altruistic structure and dynamism.Individual as well as collective benefit relies on this act on behalf of bothunfavoured and favoured people.There is no sense or reason to aiming atsurpassing the limitations of the first without maximizing the potentialities ofthe last. But the effort towards enhancing maximum skills is bigger than theone oriented towards rousing minimum skills. Not to pursue the objective ofdeveloping a person’s maximum skills is to deny altruism and to promote anattitude of anthropological, pedagogical and ethical indifference, masked itcould be under tolerance