ABSTRACT
Philosophers should be able to help educators in two ways. First, there are some very general points to be made about education and human differences, particularly about the application of various criteria and the status of different kinds of arguments. Second, there are more specific problems clustering round the notions of attachment, identity and rationality in relation to race and culture. I deal with these below; but I must forewarn the reader that I can only draw a very rough map of a terrain which is still largely uncharted, and shall be content if I can at least make more explicit some problems and difficulties that are usually glossed over.
