The Overall Issue of Education

Abstract

In a world marked by anomie, the issue of education is receiving particular social attention. The comprehensive approaches of Catholic pedagogy provide useful guidelines. This is what links together the writings of Géza Kuminetz on the development of the personality, i.e. the issue of education, and those in other disciplines, which follow the same guiding thread, and invites us to follow them. He does not do this according to a historical or theoretical approach, but primarily interprets the role and possibilities of the university as the highest institution of vocational training in personality development today, or systematises anthropological models, or looks at it from the perspective of Christian creationism. Géza Kuminetz’s findings in the field of Christian education and other social sciences are based primarily on a discussion of works from the 20th century. The essence of Kuminetz’s systems approach, which is evident here, is that he relocates the social system back to nature, i.e. to creation, in order to discuss the tasks of culture, science, education and training. The results of Géza Kuminetz’s pedagogical work contribute in many often-new ways to the identification of the difficulties of the educational system and to the outline of a comprehensive and useful pedagogical systems theory. In doing so, it puts into practice a systems approach based on a “sound world view”, namely in the interpretation of education and the specific tasks of the educator.