A historical comparison of intellectual renaissance in the East and the West
Ki-Seok Kim|Sung Sik Kim
It is not yet well known that there has been a selective bias in writing the ‘world’ history of higher education. Western hegemony prevails this academic endeavour. To recover one many lost traditions education, paper will make historical comparison two distinctive representing West and East: Scholasticism revived twelfth century Korean Confucianism sixteenth century. If University Paris was where blossomed medieval period, then it material relation between mentor his disciples, through which lineage formed, renaissance taken place since early The examines some indisputable differences Eastern methods reaching excellence. goals, subjects, organisational bases education do differ drastically. Instead centrality institution West, key factor East. These however support for any value judgment tradition being superior to other, as seen books on world A single minded analysis foreign model from perspective provide global history, but will.
Comparative Education