Pocket Guide to Philosophies of Education

Suppose you had complete freedom and an unlimited budget to create the perfect school. What would you do? Great philosophers over the centuries have imagined ideal educations, and their inspired followers have put their visions into practice with wildly different results. What should the curriculum be? What kind of teachers should one hire? Is ones goal to produce independent thinkersor obedient and dutiful citizensor entrepreneurial innovatorsor social-justice warriors? Should politicians or parents or the students themselves be making these decisions? Education is a multi-year, strategic preparation of the young for adult life. Philosophers of education are the strategists. In this Pocket Guide to Education, philosopher of education Andrew Colgan, Ph.D., compactly surveys Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Marx, Dewey, Montessori, Rand, Sartre, Skinner, Foucault and otherswith special attention to the educational implications of their philosophies.