Education to rethink through Jakoto

 Education to rethink through Jakoto



Studying is learning something. But what the hell are we learning?


Is it knowledge and information we did not know?


Is the master the one who conveys such things to us?



John Jeff Giacotto taught French to Dutch students without knowing any Dutch.


The philosopher Jacques Rancière called Giacotto an 'ignorant teacher'.


Given the common notion that a learned teacher transmits that learning to his pupils, the term 'ignorant teacher' is a great provocation against the conventional wisdom of pedagogy.


Students who met students in one book, both French and Dutch, spoke French and understood the spelling and verb changes in French that Giacotto did not teach or could not teach.


Jakoto's teaching method that 'can't be taught, but can be learned' makes us look back on our unilateral learning with speed warfare.


Interestingly, Jakoto, his teacher, also had a similar experience to his students.


Hearing the appeal of an armed uprising in the uneasy situation in the immediate aftermath of the French Revolution, he immediately enlisted in the artillery force. After enlisting without any background knowledge, he was tasked with teaching chemistry as an attribute to workers as well as a cannonball shooter who had to understand the trajectory of shells after enlisting, and then Zakoto, who had to teach mathematics and even Hebrew. He said it was always too urgent and in many cases, he had to do it without a teacher. Each time, he said, he felt his ability to learn from him was demonstrated.


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At first glance, Jakoto cannot but be a great talent and a great genius. But if we had to call him a genius, genius wouldn't lie in his brilliant career. Rather, genius lies in the conclusions drawn from one's own experiences: that he is not a genius, that all humans have the same intellectual ability, and that, if he is a genius, that all humans are geniuses.


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Giotto's greatness lies not in his belief in everyone's abilities, but in his efforts to prove it. He did not use it as unequal evidence when someone failed to demonstrate a certain ability but wanted to really help their ability to be displayed. This was his way of demonstrating equality.


Even Jacoto did not deny that there were 'idiots' in the world. However, the rules of 'idiot' he made are different from others.


A fool is not an incompetent person. When we accept the unequal reality as a given, and when we think that the superiors in the real world are actually superior to ourselves, we really become 'idiots'.


A fool is not a humble person who knows his or her own shortcomings, but a person who denies his ability and ignores himself to accept realistic discrimination as it is and psychologically accept it.


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Giacotto's philosophy shows what a teacher and education are.


"The problem is not to create literacy, but to raise up those who believe themselves to be inferior in intelligence, and to get them out of the swamp they are in, not in the swamp of ignorance, but in the swamp of self-ignorance."


Education is not about putting something in students' heads, it's about awakening them.


He doesn't have to know what I know, but it is important to know that he is a freed human being and that he knows that he is capable.

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