Mistrz i nauczyciel – zaniedbany archetyp

Abstract

The author of Mistrz i nauczyciel – zaniedbany archetyp (Master and teacher – the neglected archetype) discusses the problem of the teacher-student relationship. As the reference point serve various realizations of this topic or motif known from belles-letters, biographies and autobiographies. References to symbolic, model characters embodying the personage of the master – Socrates and Jesus – are also used. Such approach allows demonstrating the level of difficulty connected with the realization of a similar model within the framework of institutionalized education. That is why the author places the idealized picture of the master-student relationship within the sphere of positive, inspiring educational mythology and treats it as a useful indicative utopia. The myth belonging to the sphere of the private and collective mythology related to the concern for self-realization and development of one’s own identity may serve as a system of indicative signs as well as be teacher’s reference point in inconveniences of everyday work, generate a creative discomfort and stimulate to examinations and changes.