THE REQUIREMENT OF EDUCABILITY

Resumo

Based on a bibliographic research, this text aims to understand the requirement of human
educability. In short, it is about shedding light to answer the question: “Why do we talk about
education and do we need it?”. In this sense, it is considered that the desire that this world can
deepen and continue to exist, beyond the duration of a lifetime, feeds the desire to educate
future generations. First, to get to know the human world and become familiar with it, it is
necessary to immerse oneself in the language, learn from others and incorporate the historical
and cultural legacy of previous generations. It is in this place that education is inserted, a
meeting place between the old and the new. Thus, the need to preserve a heritage and take
care of those who come as a novelty is formed. If it has to do with those who arrived before us
in this world, it fundamentally configures the educational field, since we always educate the
generations that arrive from what represents our perceptions about the desirable – inherited
by the dialogue with the generations that preceded us – about the human and the human world,
so that the generations understand our human condition. Taking responsibility for the common
world and for the new generations is the essential task of all those who want the world to
continue, last and deepen. This is, in our view, the crucial task of education, and it imposes
the requirement of educability!