Socratic oath

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The oath of Socrates (also Socratic oath ) is an oath for teachers that the pedagogue Hartmut von Hentig drafted as an educational counterpart to the ancient oath of Hippocrates , which doctors previously had to take when they were licensed to practice medicine.

His text reads:

"As a teacher and educator, I am committed to

  • to respect the peculiarities of every child and to defend them against everyone;
  • to take responsibility for his physical and mental integrity;
  • to pay attention to his movement, to listen to him, to take it seriously;
  • to seek his consent to everything I do to him as I would to an adult;
  • the law of its development, as far as it is recognizable, to be interpreted for the good and to enable the child to accept this law;
  • to challenge and promote its assets;
  • to protect his weaknesses, to help him overcome fear and guilt, malice and lies, doubt and mistrust, selfishness and selfishness wherever it is needed;
  • not to break one's will - not even where it seems nonsensical; rather, to help him take his will into the rule of his reason;
  • to teach the mature use of the understanding and the art of communication and understanding;
  • to make it ready to take responsibility in and for the community;
  • to let it into the world as it is without submitting it to the world as it is;
  • to let it experience what and how the intended good life is;
  • to give him a vision of the better world and confidence that it is achievable;
  • to teach truthfulness, not truth, for 'that is with God alone'.

I commit myself

  • To set an example for myself as best I can, how one can cope with the difficulties, the challenges and opportunities of our world and with one's own always limited gifts, with one's own always given guilt;
  • To ensure, to the best of my ability, that the coming generation will find a world in which it is worth living and in which the burdens and difficulties inherited do not overwhelm their ideas, hopes and strengths;
  • to publicly justify my convictions and actions, to expose myself to criticism - especially from those affected and experts - to scrupulously examine my judgments;
  • But then to oppose all people and circumstances - the pressure of public opinion, the interests of the association, the civil servant status, the service regulations, if they hinder my resolutions expressed here. "

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