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13 SES 01 A, Politics and Cosmopolitanism
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In this paper, I took as a starting point the political declaration that tolerance is one of the most important political, cultural and ethical values on which the so-called “European dimension of education” is based. If we add the widely held view that education must cultivate tolerance, then it seems, that tolerance is an obvious and unquestionable good in education. But, on the other hand, there is very wide agreement that violence (and some other things) in schools are so bad that they must not be tolerated. This means that a teacher cannot always be tolerant. If, for example, he permits violent student behaviour although he has the power to prevent it, he fails in his role as educator.
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