I am copying a comment I made on Haimson.com. Our discussion there dovetails so well with dibros,I thought it would be a pity to not show the interconnect.
Michael, it is interesting how our postings have intertwined. On rambamsystem I mentioned that your economic perspective needed to be modified in light of your educational perspective.
In education the wise and experienced must guide the immature and inexperienced.The key to success in education is instilling the unity of all fields of the real world under one concept of "law". The real world is governed in all instances by an overarching "law". This foundation is the basis of rationality itself. Its application must be found in every subject.
Implicit to the idea of universal law is equality of application. Each and every atom is equally subject to chemical law, all matter is subject to physics and all property owners are subject to economics.
What is unique in man is that he is potentially under the domain of two different principles of law. Which of these will be dominant is our choice. We can choose to be governed by our minds or our animal psyches. It is precisely this choice which makes "self interest"
needful of clarification. Which is the real self, the appetitive animal or the rational mind.
Education should guide the immature to realizing that the superior life is that of the mind. The psyche must be guided to functioning as a tool in the mind framework.
Part of this guidance is exemplified in coveting. The rest is covered in the other dibrot. This guidance must not be coercive,but rather motivation based.The psyche must be led to realize the new sense of self as a mind consciously subject to law. This guidance to consciousness of the sovereignty of law is the fundamental principle of education.
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