ABSTRACT
Towards the end of the last chapter I sought to establish a connection
between the concept of education and the concepts of knowledge and
understanding. The task before us now is to attempt to outline what kinds
of knowledge we ought, as educators, to be concerned to pass on to
students or, more generally, the kinds of things we ought to seek to
promote when teaching/learning takes place. This more general
specification of the task will serve to remind us that we ought not to be
concerned simply to transmit factual information but also, at the very
least, to foster skills and abilities of various kinds. Or, in terms of
knowledge, we shall be concerned not only with knowing that such-andsuch is the case but also with knowing how to do various sorts of things.
