Ethical view of manipulation during the school education

This article discusses how the use of manipulation in education can be ethically justified under certain conditions. An argument is made that the ethical evaluation of manipulation depends firstly on the definition of the concepts of education and manipulation, and secondly, on the level on which the manipulation takes place, that is, on the aims and reasons for why it is used. It is also suggested that the ethical evaluation should refer to education as a global process, which starts in early childhood and ends in early adulthood, rather than to particular stages of education. The observations made in this article allow, to a certain extent, to answer to the accusation that manipulating the children in their own interest is ethically suspicious.