著者

井谷 善則

出版者

大阪教育大学

雑誌

大阪教育大学紀要 第4部門 教育科学 (ISSN:03893472)

巻号頁・発行日

no.20, pp.153-161, 1971

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In order to make education for the handicapped fruitful, it is important for both sides, us and the handicapped children, to make efforts. On the one side, we must prepare the means to find vents for the children by directing their mental and physical energies into something valuable to them which tend rather to stagnate unconsciously. On the other, the wills or volitions are absolutely necessary in themselves. When we see the bottoms of severe lives trying to burn themselves for their lives, despite of being placed upon the limited situations, we can feel sympathy for the severity of their lives and understand them. By doing so, we can understand peculiarities of the handicapped children and come in contact with their existence without passing by their sides. And we see the lives wishing for others' warm looks, which are trying to burn themselves and struggle hard to express themselves. Thoughts and practices of education of the handicapped sprout there. It is not as a result that we valued them for their usefulness or our consciousness of their special valuation. In this education for the handicapped, letting reveal weaknesses and shortcomings of actual children, we try to realize holy things, beautiful things, true things, and good things in them. In education for the handicapped thoughts of humanism should be acting vividly. How has the system of valuation in human history or universal history been made up? It is also the matter in the ideas of education for the handicapped that there have been the things having no value of existence and there will be in the future in universal history. It is the same thing with judging the value of our existence and doing the value of the handicapped children's lives. In order to let the handicapped children who were born with heavy burdens into the organic solidarity of human beings rightly, a deep consciousness of social solidarity is necessary. If not, they only become draught horses with heavy burdens. The rule of social solidarity is to know how to lighten the torments of our neighbours, and not to suspend to help them. The problems of the handicapped children can not be placed as matters of individual misfortunes or domestic ones.