ABSTRACT
Liberal political philosophers have become increasingly aware in recent years of the significance of the place and characterization of liberal education in their theories. Liberal educators, on this account, would involve all pupils in each and every form of knowledge that can properly be ascertained, or that is seriously claimed to be such by enough people. Bailey's work ends with a substantial discussion of what he sees as threats and challenges to such a conception of liberal education. Aristotle, whilst considered by many as fathering the notion of liberal education, clearly saw it as an education only appropriate for those already free, and therefore not for women or for those who by virtue of slavery did mechanical work. The educational system can never do more than Service, as it were, the dominant capitalist ideology and reproduce the human productive requirements of such a society.
