ABSTRACT
Martin Heidegger was born in Messkirch, Germany on 26 September 1889. Heidegger was without doubt one of the most influential – and controversial – philosophers of his time and commentators credit him with influencing numerous disciplines in addition to philosophy: theology, psychiatry, literary criticism, historiography, theory of language, philosophy of science, and the analysis of technological society. It has been estimated that his collected texts, which are in the process of being published, will amount to some hundred volumes. And although he rarely explicitly addressed the topic of education as such, because of the profundity of his insights into the human condition and into the nature of learning, thinking and understanding, the field of education is one in which his ideas have the potential to make a huge impact – which is now beginning to be recognized.
