ABSTRACT
The views I have expressed are hugely at variance with those endorsed by many philosophers of education. I quote, with brief comment, Dame Mary Warnock:
Our first duty as teachers must be to teach what is known. And this carries with it the mark of non-relativity. One is saying ‘this is how it was’ or ‘this is how it is’. One cannot consistently, in the same breath, say ‘but it may not have been’ or ‘but I may be wrong’. To adopt any other method is to allow nothing in the curriculum except philosophy.
(Warnock 1977, pp. 121–2)