An existentialistic teacher should emphasize on which of the following? In the above, which combination is correct?
An existentialist teacher stresses freedom, responsibility and subjective feelings, making statements 1, 2 and 3 the correct combination.
Freedom fits because existentialism regards each learner as a free agent who must author his own existence.
Responsibility follows freedom, since the individual alone bears the consequences of the choices he makes.
Subjective feelings matter because existentialism values personal, inner experience and authentic self-awareness over fixed external standards.
Cooperative living belongs to pragmatism and social philosophies, which emphasise the group, not the solitary individual.
Existentialism in education is linked to Jean-Paul Sartre and to A.S. Neill's Summerhill, where the child chooses freely.
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