ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the broken middle of education as the relation between knowledge and learning. The broken middle of educational relations in three ways. First, in G. W. F. Hegelian terms from the Introduction to the Phenomenology. Second, in the more familiar educational terms of learning and knowledge, presenting the education relation as the ‘life and death’ struggle for certainty. Thirdly, by presenting the broken middle as the triune spiritual education which is the Hegelian system, or ‘science’. In educational terms the absolute is the relation of relation and non-relation, or of learning and knowledge. The other significant relation whom the broken middle of the education relation determines is that between teacher and student. In the appearance of the classroom, however, to ‘begin’ with, this education is only visible in and as opposition. The classroom has always employed discipline in support of its illusion of education, in an attempt to counter the opposition between universal and particular.
