Timeless Teachers and Ethical Visions

The industrial monoculture spreading across the globe is highly competitivegreedy and egotistical; in the shaping of educational policy global communitieshave accepted a model based on science and technology which lacks aspects thatshould be addressed in the goal of education. The book Timeless Teachers andEthical Visions is a historical inquiry of educational concerns that have developedthrough the centuries. It is a systematic discussion of prominent educatorsincluding their theories and experiments: St. Thomas Aquinas Al-Ghazali IbnKhaldun Leo Tolstoy Mahatma Gandhi John Dewey and Paulo Freire.In addition the inquiry investigates the strengths and weaknesses of the neoliberaleducational policy the suggestions to construct an educational policy consideringthe common good criticize uncontrolled individualism while emphasizing the goal of education that enhancescommunity consciousness to the learner. Finally the aim of this book is to propose an alternative educationalpolicy that is beneficial to the global community.