ABSTRACT
My Presidential Address to the 1981 Annual Meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, “The Ideal of the Educated Person” was written while I was a Fellow at the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College. One of the themes that dominated the research I did before I began my study of the place of women in educational thought was that the prevailing conception of education was too narrow, by far. By bringing women into the picture and thus revealing the genderization of education’s governing philosophical ideal this paper introduced a new dimension into that earlier argument Representing my very first inquiry into the place of women in contemporary educational thought, it also considerably enlarged the scope of my new research program.
