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“For there to be true education in the strict sense of the term, there is one basic prerequisite: that this educational process must be the object of investment and passion on the part of both educators and learners, and, to put it plainly, that if there is no love in education, there is no education!
If someone learns something in school, it is because, one after another, they fall in love with a teacher in a classroom—and even at the university—and they fall in love with that teacher because they see that the teacher himself is in love with what he teaches.
Well, to put it bluntly—and to make myself thoroughly unpopular with those listening—today teachers are preoccupied with their professional demands, families are concerned with getting their child a ‘piece of paper,’ and children are concerned with anything but internalizing what they learn. Well, education cannot exist under these conditions.”
Cornelius Castoriadis (Istanbul, March 11, 1922 – Paris, December 26, 1997) was a Greek philosopher, economist, and psychoanalyst. One of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, he brought together politics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in his work. He was called the “philosopher of autonomy,” was the author of the important book *The Imaginary Institution of Society*, and co-founder of the journal *Socialism or Barbarism*.