Adam Smith on Education - Being Extracts from The Wealth of Nations

괜찮다고 말하지만 괜찮지 않은 너와 나, 우리가 안고 사는 우울. 그리고 그 감정이 가져온 마음의 병 우울증. 화제의 채널



We read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations mainly from the perspective of political economy to look at his laissez-faire theory. However, Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is also a valuable text from an educational point of view. In particular, Smith developed the theory of education reform in ‘a remarkable chapter’ in Book V of The Wealth of Nations, which emphasizes freedom and competition, based on self-love by applying his ‘natural system of freedom’ to the field of education. History best remembers Smith as an 18th-century classical economist who was an advocate of the free-market principle, but I hope that by shedding light on the educational ideas Smith proposed in The Wealth of Nations, I can enhance Smith’s status as an educational reformer, which has been undervalued.