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In this article I have argued that the issue of the effect of education on one getting educated is an ontological one. I make my case with the help of Heidegger's concepts of Dasein, and man's-being-in-the-world. I first argue that tradition is constitutive of one's being, and that man's being is in-a-tradition, and then make the case that education is located in tradition, and that education is a process by which one is initiated into that tradition. As a consequence getting educated in a tradition outside one's own has the effect of dislocating the being of the one getting educated.
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Kazmi, Y. On being educated in the west: The disruption in self as a narrative and authenticity and inauthenticity of self. Studies in Philosophy and Education 10, 281–295 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00364545
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