Zum Verhältnis von Pädagogik und Politik bei Schleiermacher

It was clear to Schleiermacher that, long before each modern democratic state, whose self-understanding is based on their citizens being able to participate in them politically, is able to develop, the provision of democratic institutions alone is not enough. Historically, the development of inner stability in modern democratic states can only occur if a public education system, which caters equally to the needs of all the people living in them, is established nationwide. As a new addition to the system of education, which was originally conceived as a purely private concept, the particular contribution of public education has been to initiate a process of political education stemming from schools.