Zaproszenie do mitu. Filozofia wychowania z pism Leszka Kołakowskiego wywiedziona
Invitation to myth. Philosophy of education as gathered from Leszek Leszek Kołakowski’s work

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to reconstruct Leszek Kołakowski’s vision of education based on thestudy of his own notions and ideas.According to Kołakowski, any meaning which can be attributed to human life and activitiesis not a feature inherent in human beings but can only be granted by themselves. The processof sense creation is irremovable from culture. Kołakowski calls this process myth creation, whichis one of the key concepts he employs. He considers education as an introduction to myth whilethe lack of an external frame of reference renders education “identical with indoctrination”.Therefore the only way to preserve the apprentice’s autonomy is to refer to another categoryof Kołakowski’s, which is inconsistency. Placing hope for the apprentice’s autonomy in theteacher’s inconsistency and, in consequence, in the ineffectiveness of education, is not veryreassuring. Kołakowski’s vision of education demonstrates that scepticism is not capable (oreven willing) of offering us anything more than that.

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