ABSTRACT
This book is intended as an introduction to philosophy of education for
students in colleges and university departments of education who have
had little or no previous instruction in philosophical methods and
techniques. We shall, therefore, be at pains to explain as clearly and as
accurately as is necessary any technical or semi-technical terms
introduced in the course of the exposition. There will not, as a matter of
fact, be many such terms and readers need have no fear that we shall blind
them with jargon. Anyone with a modicum of common sense who is
prepared to exercise thought should find no great difficulty in
understanding what we have to say, always provided that he or she comes
to the book with an open mind and not predisposed to regard philosophy
as an essentially esoteric and difficult study capable of mastery by only a
few gifted individuals.
