An Introduction to Philosophy of Education

Paraphrasing Ludwig Wittgenstein who asserts that Philosophy is not a theory but an activity we might say that philosophy of education is not a theory but a pedagogical activity. From the classic philosophers of education such as Confucius Socrates and Plato through Rousseau Aquinas and many more who lead up to the modern age of such thinkers as Dewey Sartre Arendt and Chomsky this comprehensive introduction to the most important branches and representatives of the philosophy of education spans the personalities terminology and vocabulary of thousands of years of philosophical thought in addition to the more recent encroachment of social and psychological sciences.