Lessons in perceptivity. Educational reflections on the substance of totalitarianism

Abstract

This article argues that the main task of humanities in education is to reveal the mechanisms typical for a totalitarian worldview, including discrimination and minority exclusion. A collection of reportage stories Cywil w Berlinie by Antoni Sobanski will form the basis for my deliberations. The writings of Sobanski are interesting for a scholarly educator in terms of detecting disturbing and threatening elements of the surrounding world. Despite being written in the 1930s, they are surprisingly contemporary and universal.