{"id":58029,"date":"2021-07-05T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=58029"},"modified":"2021-07-04T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T21:03:21","slug":"modesty-is-it-the-sign-of-a-successful-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/modesty-is-it-the-sign-of-a-successful-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesty is it the sign of a successful education?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58030\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/modesty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/modesty.jpg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/modesty-250x175.jpg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/modesty-600x420.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can we advocate modesty in a society dominated by competition?\u00a0Triumphant neoliberalism favors performance.\u00a0To be successful, you have to be more efficient than others.\u00a0And social networks, on which young people are so present, encourage a lot of self-staging.\u00a0How could education, in such a context, propose to value modesty?<\/p>\n<p>By advocating modesty, aren&#8217;t we condemning those we educate to stay eternally in the background, or even to become eternal \u201cloosers\u201d?\u00a0Would there be anything to be gained in 2021, apart from a few gibes, by being modest?\u00a0At a time when a philosopher like Michael Sandel questions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.albin-michel.fr\/ouvrages\/la-tyrannie-du-merite-9782226445599\">&#8220;the tyranny of merit&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0which would freeze and legitimize the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/le-merite-est-il-encore-un-ideal-democratique-159488\">distribution of places<\/a>\u00a0in society, creating a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.franceculture.fr\/emissions\/la-grande-table-idees\/michael-sandel-et-les-perdants-de-la-meritocratie\">form of hybris<\/a>\u00a0among the winners of the system, return to the teachings of some great philosophers.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>A sense of &#8220;right measure&#8221;<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Modesty is not absence of ambition, but refusal of excess.\u00a0It could be defined as restraint in self-appreciation.\u00a0It concerns the relation of oneself to oneself, before defining a certain way of situating oneself in relation to others.\u00a0Not to pretend to be, and first of all not to believe that you are better or stronger than what you are.\u00a0To be modest is to have a sense of &#8220;just measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Etymologically, modesty precisely means &#8220;measure&#8221; and moderation.\u00a0In the sense that Aristotle gives to this term in his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89thique_%C3%A0_Nicomaque\"><em>Ethics to Nicomaques<\/em><\/a>\u00a0, modesty is a virtue, &#8220;consisting of a mediety\u2026 between two vices, one by excess and the other by default&#8221;.\u00a0&#8220;The characteristics of vice are excess and defect, and virtue is mediety.&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;Mediety&#8221; is &#8220;the right measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58031\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58031\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58031\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-250x131.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/balance-600x314.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-58031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Modesty, a question of balance? Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aristotle offers concrete figures.\u00a0&#8220;The prudent man&#8221;, in other words the wise man, will know how to show &#8220;magnanimity&#8221;, the middle ground between vanity and humility.\u00a0Or even \u201cveracity\u201d, the middle ground between boasting and self-deprecation.<\/p>\n<p>Descartes makes the same praise of moderation in the first rule of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cairn.info\/revue-philosophique-2009-4-page-471.htm\">&#8220;his morality by provision&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0, which invites one to govern oneself &#8220;in everything according to the most moderate opinions and those furthest from excess, which were commonly received in practice. by the best considered of those with whom I would have to live \u201d.\u00a0&#8220;Any excess having a habit of being bad&#8221;, the most &#8220;useful&#8221; is to follow the most moderate opinions, which are &#8220;probably the best&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Modesty, in the sense of restraint and moderation, is thus a virtuous attitude which offers a significant gain for the \u201cgovernance\u201d of one&#8217;s life, in terms of both ethics and practical efficiency.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>A requirement for lucidity<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Modesty is not weakness.\u00a0It is not resignation, but lucidity.\u00a0An effort of lucidity which results in the rejection of pretension and vanity.\u00a0It is in this sense that the death of Socrates teaches a lesson in strength.<\/p>\n<p>For Alain, in his\u00a0<em>Elements of Philosophy<\/em>\u00a0, Socrates is the model of the wise man&#8217;s modesty.\u00a0According to the testimony of Plato (\u00a0<em>Apology of Socrates<\/em>\u00a0), to answer the indictment of his accusers, Socrates begins by evoking a paradox.\u00a0He was &#8220;aware that he was little more than wise&#8221; when, according to the oracle of Delphi, no one was wiser than he.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it possible to define &#8220;a purely human wisdom&#8221; (a knowledge which relates to the human being), possessed by those who have understood that the true sage is the one who does not claim to be.\u00a0Many men seem wise to many others, and especially to themselves, when they are not.\u00a0The false sage &#8220;thinks he knows something, when he knows nothing, while I, if I don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t think I know either.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Modesty delivers from the illusion (of &#8216;pretension&#8217;) of excellence (of one&#8217;s&#8217; self-excellence &#8216;), which obscures the minds of&#8217; many people who think they know something and who know nothing or few things \u201d, as Plato had Socrates say.\u00a0It conditions the progression in knowledge, of oneself, of men, and of the universe.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Modesty, as the pride of the righteous<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Socrates&#8217; pride had struck everyone who attended his trial.\u00a0Could a certain pride therefore go hand in hand with modesty?\u00a0Certainly, modesty is a sign of lucidity as to one&#8217;s limits.\u00a0But above all, it is the rejection of the tyranny of appearing.\u00a0The modest is the one who favors the consistency of being, rather than the facticity of appearing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is still something artificial about the cut between being and appearing!\u00a0Everyone is in the first place only what their body gives to see.\u00a0As Paul Val\u00e9ry says (Fragments of the\u00a0<em>Narcissus<\/em>\u00a0):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;You alone, oh my body, my dear body,<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love you, the only object that defends me from the dead \u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But no one is reduced to appearances.\u00a0And especially not to social appearances.\u00a0We know since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/essentiels\/pascal\/pensees\">Pascal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0: the &#8220;size of establishment&#8221; deserves only &#8220;respect of establishment&#8221;.\u00a0Media visibility concerns and delights only those for whom appearance is everything, and value is not measured by the number of those who follow its shadow (however great it may be).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58032\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58032\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58032\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/appearance.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/appearance.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/appearance-250x188.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/appearance-600x450.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-58032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">To escape the tyranny of appearances, is modesty a key? Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We must hear here the luminous voice of Pascal, for whom pride finds its true place in &#8220;the order of charity&#8221;.\u00a0The &#8220;lust of the flesh&#8221; is good for &#8220;the rich, the kings&#8221;, whose object is the body.\u00a0Spiritual concupiscence, for the curious and learned, whose object is the mind.\u00a0&#8220;Pride&#8221; properly so called, finally, belongs to the wise, whose object is justice:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt is not that one cannot be glorious for goods or for knowledge, but it is not the place of pride.\u00a0The proper place for pride is wisdom \u201d(Thoughts).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, the modest man is the one who is capable of experiencing, whatever his space of action and &#8220;success&#8221; (as father, teacher, companion, friend, craftsman, social actor, writer, astronomer, or even researcher). in physics), the pride of having in everything and always sought justice, and tried to rise to the order of &#8220;true charity&#8221;.\u00a0Like the saints, for whom, according to Pascal, God alone is sufficient.<\/p>\n<p>For Pascal, as we know, wisdom is visible only to \u201cthe eyes of the heart\u201d.\u00a0It is this visibility that will seek those who will have understood in what sense modesty is the crown of a successful human education.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio<\/strong>: <span class=\"fn author-name\">Charles Hadji is <\/span>Honorary Professor (Educational Sciences) at Universit\u00e9 Grenoble Alpes (UGA)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we advocate modesty in a society dominated by competition?\u00a0Triumphant neoliberalism favors performance.\u00a0To be successful, you have to be more efficient than others.\u00a0And social networks, on which young people are so present, encourage a lot of self-staging.\u00a0How could education, in such a context, propose to value modesty? 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