ABSTRACT
The educational system has long depended on selected teaching materials that relate to the subjects of the natural sciences and the liberal arts. This system helps the younger generation to acquire the knowledge and ability that appear necessary for a person's life competence in society, as well as for the continued existence of society and its life-order. This includes the natural sciences and the liberal arts, mathematical-physical and linguistic-historical knowledge, or put simply: physics and ethics in the broadest sense. The educational system is differentiated according to the societal division of labor and the varied demands associated with it. There is, e.g., popular education and elite education. Today the primary usefulness of the descriptive and interpretive humanities is often found to be that through counteraction they can counterbalance or eliminate the harm resulting from the accelerating "modernization" of our life-situations.
