Fundamental Pedagogy Jana Doležalová

1. Intellectual education
The aim of intellectual education is to develop speech and cognitive processes, 
i.e. intellect. The educated persons should master the knowledge and 
understanding (information, terms, rules, definitions and theories) from various 
scientific fields and develop cognitive processes (perception, notions and 
primarily thinking) predominantly in school institutions, but also with the help of 
various media, in order to get to know and adapt to the surrounding world. 
Intellectual skills have to be developed, e.g. the ability to think about various 
phenomena, the ability to use knowledge creatively and evaluate it and to 
handle problem-solving. The important task for intellectual education is to learn 
to be learning not only during the school attendance period, but to pursue 
lifelong education. For this reason, it is important to form a positive relationship 
to cognition and education.
 
2. Moral education
The aim of moral education is to raise an individual that behaves and acts 
morally, in compliance with the ethical norms of the given society and his/her 
own conscience.
The content of moral education consists of the formation of moral awareness, 
habits, feeling, moral conviction and actions, attitudes and values by the 
individual. It also includes the development of conative, character and pro-
social qualities of an individual. All basic components of the personality in the 
area of ethics are thus being influenced (for more details see Chapter 10).
 
3. Occupational (polytechnical) education  
The aim of occupational education is to master working skills and habits, both 
for manual and intellectual work. The content is supplemented by the 
requirement of individual’s endowment with theoretical knowledge of the 
relevant field, linked purposefully to the practice. Cultivating positive attitudes 
to work is very important.
The issues of professional orientation, labour qualification, working culture and 
others are related to the given component.
Polytechnical education focuses the attention of the educated persons to 
reasonable utilisation of various technologies that accompany our private and 
(primarily) professional lives.
The work component of education utilises the contents from all other 
components of education.