ABSTRACT
First published in 1981, Essays on Educators is a collection of essays on a variety of themes relating to Great Educators. The book is not only an exposition of the thought of these educators but a collection of critical essays in which their writings are used selectively to raise problems of permanent educational interest and importance.
The first part explores the education of the individual in society and the development of reason. The second looks at progressivism and tradition in education and includes a critique of Herbert Spencer’s Essays on Education, which are little known. The third part of the book is concerned with tackling educational problems from an interdisciplinary standpoint.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |50 pages
The Individual and Society
chapter |12 pages
Was Plato Nearly Right about Education?
chapter |17 pages
The Paradoxes in Rousseau's Emile
chapter |19 pages
Democratic Values and Educational Aims
part |60 pages
Tradition and Progressivism
chapter |19 pages
Herbert Spencer's Scientific Progressivism
chapter |17 pages
John Dewey's Philosophy of Education *
chapter |22 pages
Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of Education
part |35 pages
Interdisciplinary Critiques