A satire envisioning some possible results of the growing trend toward compulsory lifelong education. (LY)

A discussion of the place of Catholic education in contemporary American society. (JW)

The guest editor for a special issue of "Teachers College Record" remarks on the path of philosophy of education through the latter half of this century. (JMF)

Presents Schweitzer's views on the purposes of education and the role of the teacher. (SJL)

This author contends that the THEAETETUS exhibits two contrasting theories of education. (MM)

Although William Godwin's place in the radical movements of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is recognized, relatively little attention has been given to his contribution to educational debate and praxis in the same period. Godwin shared with many of his contemporaries ideas drawn from Locke, Hartley and Rousseau, and was…

This article explores the role of philosophy of education in three post-Soviet societies of Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania and Slovenia. The characteristic themes and approaches of philosophical reflection about education in these societies are explored with reference to three periods: the pre-Soviet, Soviet and post-Soviet periods.

In reaction to Doret De Ruyter's recent defence of the importance of ideals in education, I advocate cautiousness in three respects. First, I explain the importance of distinguishing ideals more sharply from goals by demonstrating the problems of considering ideals even approximately realisable. Second, I substantiate my doubts about their…

How can philosophy exert its critical function in society and in education if any appeal to independent and even relatively certain criteria seems problematic? The epistemological doubts that foundationalist models of justification encounter unavoidably seem to raise this question. In particular, the relativist implications that seem to result…