This article compares two pedagogical concepts of elite schools, the Salem College in Germany and the Ecole d’Humanité in Switzerland, both of which aim at humanizing society. The Salem College and the Ecole d’Humanité wish to educate cosmopolitan citizens who act responsibly to improve society. The article seeks to analyse how the schools conceive of influence exercised on world-wide development. Both establishments share the same aim, but their respective vision of the new cosmopolitan citizen and their conception of societal organization are different. The Salem College, following the example of Plato’s Republic, forms an elite and prepares it for an active role in the upper echelon of society. Their mission is to transform society from a superior position (from top to bottom). In a Humboldtian sense, the Ecole d’Humanité prefers to offer an elite education to everybody. The object is to learn at school, which is a microcosmic community, how to act in everyday life as a charismatic and open-minded person in order to transform humanity from the inside out. Each particular individual is called upon to humanize the world in which he lives.
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Letz, Carmen: Eliteerziehung zum Kosmopolitismus. Von der Polis der Schule Schloss Salem zum Mikrokosmos der Ecole d’HumanitĂ©. <http://www.germanistik.ch/publikation.php? id=Eliteerziehung_zum_Kosmopolitismus> (Publiziert März 2013)
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Letz, Carmen: Eliteerziehung zum Kosmopolitismus. Von der Polis der Schule Schloss Salem zum Mikrokosmos der Ecole d’Humanité. In: Michael Stolz, Laurent Cassagnau, Daniel Meyer und Nathalie Schnitzer (Hg.): Germanistik in der Schweiz (GiS) Zeitschrift der Schweizerischen Akademischen Gesellschaft für Germanistik. Heft 10/2013. Bern: germanistik.ch 2013, S.79-87