May 1968: the liberated word and the desire to educate

This article examines what was happening in education in May 1968 and considers the loss of meaning of the concept “experience” in our era. Experience refers basically to the incomplete relationship between young people and their teachers. A description of this experience is not enough to understand what was at play in May 1968. To do this, we must recover some concepts that have been overlooked in the Theory and Philosophy of Education, including “commemoration”, “training” and “imagination”. In this study, we focus on commemoration as a metaphorical version that is repeated, in the sense of what Hans Blumenberg called a “metaphorology”.