PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION:

AN ON-LINE COLLECTION OF READINGS

PART ONE:

CLASSICAL SOURCES

Plato

• The Euthydemus

• The Republic (selections)

Aristophanes

• The Clouds

Aristotle

• Nicomachean Ethics II

• Politics  VII and VIII

Quintilian

• The Ideal Education

Plutarch

• The Training of Children

Augustine

• Confessions 1

• Catechising of The Uninstructed

Aquinas

• Summa Theologica I     Q1  /   Q16   /  Q17  /  Q117, art 1

Erasmus

• Selected Colloquia

 

PART TWO:

MODERN SOURCES

John Locke

•  Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Daniel Defoe

• The Education of Women

Rousseau

• Emile  I ,  II  ,  III ,  IV 

Kant

• Education

• What is Enlightenment?

Benjamin Franklin

• The Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt

• The Strenuous Life  (selections)

Booker T. Washington

• Up From Slavery (selection) 

Bernard Shaw

• Treatise on Parents and Children

Alfred North Whitehead

• The Aims of Education

John Dewey

• My Pedagogic Creed

• Experience and Education (selections)

Robert M. Hutchings

• The Tradition of the West

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