ABSTRACT
The aim of education should be to promote the well-being of those being educated. This is in opposition to the view that part of education promotes people's good, while another part, moral education, is to make them attentive to that of others. The first stage of education, from birth through to early adolescence, should be devoted to these tasks. Steps will be taken to make the open environment educational: workplaces and the media, for instance, will be reshaped so as to reinforce and not contradict values earlier acquired. The aim of education in a complex industrialized society like people's own should be the cultivation of personal autonomy of a certain sort. Preparation for autonomy rests on the gradual formation of the dispositions already described under Early education. Education is centrally to do with the growth and organization of desires. But this operates against a certain background. An education which seeks autonomy for some while debarring others is ethically indefensible.
