The Aim of the School Curriculum

Abstract

When we wish to systematize the school curriculum, first we should consider its aim, "What do we teach the school curriculumn for?". Education is to act on a child in order to bring him up as a human being. A characteristic of a human being or human nature is that he is always wishing to live more humanly though his life is based on animal instincts. To live more humanly is to live searching for value. Accordingly I reached a conclusion that the aim of the school curriculumn is to cultivate the natural mind searching for such values as truth and beauty. Hereafter I want to construct from the above-mentioned aim a system of the school curriculum.