A NEW EDUCATIONAL MODEL FOR CRIMINALITY
                       PREVENTION

                         Emilian M. Dobrescu, Romanian Academy
                        Tiberiu-Viorel Popescu, Romanian Academy


ABSTRACT: „Solon said that, in order to be free, a citizen had to study; education was
the ground of democracy and in Athens there was no illiterate citizen. The education was
both of the body as well as of the soul in a natural continuity... Plato was even aware
that in all that there was, there was a core of “dissension” (entropie) that sooner or later
led to the fall. He tried to set a fortress model that would minimize the effects of this core
of destruction. In the dialogue entitled „Republica”, he pointed out that it was in the
power of man to minimize the evil and to build a harmonious fortress that would prevent
the destruction. The idea of harmony, which is to be found also in music and
mathematics, is extended also to the relations between people... „Man can complete itself
through education and culture. I feel sorry that people do not see these simple things and
we witness a rush of goods and pleasures, a hedonism that has been before. The
contemporary man does not realize that the Humanity has already gone through such
situations and is in danger to repeat them, danger that could be avoided through
knowledge and understanding”, says today, a few thousand years since the release of
Plato’s theory, our compatriot, Univ. Prof. Dr. Nicolae Săcăliş-Calata1.

Key words: model of education, new educational model, deficient social education, criminality
prevention strategy.

JEL codes: A14, I23, K14




1
  Elena Solunca, Memoria culturală – sursă de învăţătură a realităţii, talkshow with Ph.D. Nicolae
Săcăliş-Calata, in Curentul, August 14th 2009, p. 13.