ABSTRACT
Towards the end of the last chapter I sought to establish a connection between the concept of education and the concepts of knowledge and understanding. The task before us now is to attempt to outline what kinds of knowledge we ought, as educators, to be concerned to pass on to students or, more generally, the kinds of thing we ought to seek to promote when teaching/learning takes place. This more general specification of the task will serve to remind us that we ought not to be concerned simply to transmit factual information but also, at the very least, to foster skills and abilities of various kinds. Or, in terms of knowledge, we shall be concerned not only with knowing that such-and-such is the case but also with knowing how to do various sorts of thing.
