Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: 1,3, Technical University of Chemnitz, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses the topicality of Emanuel Kant's concept of education in relation to today, the 21st century. In the first part, the question of what Kant understands by the term education and which approaches and goals he names will be addressed. Then, today's educational goals will be analysed and compared with Kant's in order to arrive at a result or a corresponding result with regard to the research question. But first, since it is mainly about Immanuel Kant, some biographical and important information, or content, on his part should be mentioned. Immanuel Kant is considered the most important German philosopher. His thinking brought the Enlightenment to a conclusion and overcame it at the same time. He founded German idealism, and his philosophy formed the starting point for many of the newer philosophical directions.