Role model as an educator: exemplar on the Plutarch's Parallel Lives

Abstract

Čovjekov je razvoj cjeloživotni proces koji se u njegovu slučaju odvija kroz odgoj. On, da bi postao čovjekom u punom smislu te riječi mora prije svega, uz pomoć drugih ljudi, odgajatelja i okoline, steći mehanizme s pomoću kojih će, kad pređe u sferu (samo)odgoja, pronaći svoje sebstvo. Premda se ti mehanizmi najčešće usvajaju od roditelja i učitelja, čovjek je, posebno u suvremenom svijetu, izložen brojnim implicitnim odgajateljima koji posredno utječu na njegov razvoj. Njih on ne mora nužno osobno poznavati da bi oni svojim ponašanjem i načinom življenja utjecali na formiranje njegove ličnosti. Takvi se odgajatelji, skupa s primarnima, jednim imenom nazivaju uzorima na koje se čovjek ugleda, od kojih uči i poput kojih u određenoj fazi svog života želi biti. Cilj je ovog rada istražiti kakvi bi uzori bili dobri za čovjekov odgoj, oslanjajući se na sliku antičkog društva čija je filozofija utemeljena u čovjekovoj neprekidnoj potrazi za samim sobom i koje je u središte čovjekova odgoja i obrazovanja postavila njegovu ćud.Human development is a lifelong process, which in this case takes place through education. In order to become human being in the full sense of the word, he must, at first with the help of other people, his educators and the social environment, discover mechanisms which will later give him possibilites to find his true inner self. Although these mechanisms are most often adopted by parents and teachers, human being, especially in the modern world, is exposed to numerous implicit educators that indirectly influece his development. Human does not need to know them personally in order for them to influence the formation of his personality. Such educators, just as the primary ones, are called the role models. From them human being can learn and at the certan stage of his life he wants to be like them. The aim of this paper is to explore which models would be good for human's education, relying on the ancient society whose philosophy is based on man's continuous search for his inner self and which placed human's nature in the center of his education