论教育权威

On Educational Authority

Educational authority is the fundamental principle which guarantees the achievement of the common good of school education and effects the common act of teachers and students． It is a supplementary authority owned by teacher over student，according to the lack of the student autonomy，which has two sorts of authorities: one concerns the practical order，and the other theoretical order． By nature educational authority is power effecting through command，the rule signified by which also can't leave the practical judgment of the students who have freedom of choice，and finally in order to promote and realize the ultimate freedom of students． If the freedom of choice is the freedom choosing the good thing or the bad thing，the ultimate freedom is freedom which choosing virtue as its aim and ground． Therefore，educational authority has a normative capacity to demand the obedience of student，which hence not opposition to the freedom of student． The practice of educational authority needs to resist one way in which divides the educational union of teacher and student，to create the union condition in which guarantees the unity between educational order and student freedom of action，between educational knowledge and student experience． In conclusion，this is a democratic authority of education，which has a basis of the principle of continuous and interactive experience，to defend and promote the development and transformation of experience of the community．