Journal            Scientia Paedagogica Experimentalis 2022, Vol. 59, issue 2

Title                Science, education and technology (S.E.T.): progress in function of well-being?

Authors           Wang Lin, Fernand Vandamme

Pages              141-166

Abstract          In the Indo-European Myths at the start we get the golden age. Here we get the highest level of security, wellbeing and welfare. The golden age is followed by the silver age, the bronze and finally the iron age. These ages are characterized by the introduction of more and more science, education and technology. The more of these the less security, wellbeing and welfare. This view is very explicit in the Greek and Roman mythology. In the work of J. J. Rousseau we find the same ideas. In the 14th century we see the reversal. It is believed that science, education and technology is the basic source of progress, wellbeing, security and welfare. In the 20th and 21th century this view is more and more questioned. Not that much the relevance of science, education and technology, but rather what type of these is needed, acceptable, relevant, applicable… This is the issue we bring forward in this contribution and the challenge of the adagium: “The more simplicity and the more transparency,  the more security and safety for wellbeing and survival” as well as “Sophistication is a cover for hidden targets”?

Keywords       Dyssocial, education, euculturalisation, gnost, golden age, hidden curriculum, Indo-European myths, J.J. Rousseau, metamorphoses, Ovid, Post Genetic and the Post-Cultural liberated man: the P-G-C-man, progress, Science, S.E.T., Technology, well-being.