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References and further reading

  • Aquinas (c. 1257) ‘De Magistro’ (The Teacher), question 11 in Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate (Truth), vol. 2, trans. J.V. McGlynn, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1994.

    (Aquinas’ treatise on teaching.)

  • Augustine (386) De ordine (On Order or Divine Providence and the Problem of Evil), trans. R.P. Russell in The Fathers of the Church: The Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 1, ed. L. Schopp, New York: Cima Publishing Co., 1948, 229–332.

    (An early work on liberal studies and knowledge of God.)

  • Augustine (386–9) Contra Academicos (Against the Academicians) and De magistro (The Teacher), trans., intro. and notes by P. King, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1995.

    (A critique of scepticism and an account of knowledge and teaching.)

  • Augustine (397–426) De doctrina christiana (Christian Instruction), trans. J.J. Gavigan in Fathers of the Church: The Writings of Saint Augustine, vol. 4, ed. R. Deferrari, Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, Inc., 1947–66, 19–235.

    (A treatise on the Christian teacher’s training and methods of teaching.)

  • Augustine (400) De catechizandis rudibus (Catechizing the Uninstructed), trans. J.P. Christopher, Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 1926.

    (Proposes a course of instruction for the uneducated.)

  • Aristotle (c. 330) De Partibus Animalium (On the Parts of Animals), Greek text with trans. A. Peck in Aristotle, vol. 12, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    (Opens with remarks on the nature of education.)

  • Aristotle (c. 330) Nicomachean Ethics, trans. and notes T. Irwin, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co., 1985.

    (Aristotle’s main ethical work and an important source of his educational thought.)

  • Aristotle (c. 330) Politics, trans., intro. and notes by C. Lord, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

    (Aristotle’s lectures on politics and the place of education in a good city.)

  • Ashcraft, R. (1991) John Locke: Critical Assessments, vol. 2, London: Routledge.

    (Includes articles on Locke’s educational thought and related topics such as reason, natural law and toleration.)

  • Bacon, F. (1605–10) The Advancement of Learning and New Atlantis, ed. A. Johnston, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974.

    (Seminal works of the modern era on the condition and advancement of knowledge and human progress – they shaped the pedagogical proposals of J.A. Comenius and others.)

  • Beck, F.A.G. (1964) Greek Education, London: Methuen.

    (A historical account of Greek education and its leading theorists.)

  • Beck, L.W. (1978) ‘Kant on Education’, in Essays on Kant and Hume, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    (A valuable introduction and guide to the relevant texts.)

  • Curren, R. (1997) Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education, Savage, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

    (A study in Aristotle’s educational politics which gives close attention to the influence of Plato’s Laws.)

  • Descartes (1628–49) The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vols 1 and 2, trans. J. Cottingham et al., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984–5.

    (See his Rules For the Direction of The Mind; Discourse on Method, parts 1 and 2; The Search For Truth By Means of the Natural Light; and the ‘Author’s Letter’ or preface to the Principles of Philosophy.)

  • Dewey, J. (1899) The School and Society, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    (A good introduction to Dewey’s educational thought.)

  • Dewey, J. (1902) The Child and the Curriculum, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

    (Another early and accessible statement of Dewey’s educational philosophy.)

  • Dewey, J. (1909) Moral Principles in Education, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

    (On moral education in the schools.)

  • Dewey, J. (1916) Democracy and Education, New York: Macmillan.

    (Dewey’s most systematic work on education.)

  • Dewey, J. (1927) The Public and Its Problems, New York: Henry Holt.

    (On social intelligence and related ideas.)

  • Dewey, J. (1938) Experience and Education, New York: Macmillan.

    (An introductory restatement of his educational views which looks back critically on the progressive education movement.)

  • Epictetus (c. 120) The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, The Manual, and Fragments, Greek text with trans. by W. Oldfather, 2 vols, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966–7.

    (An example of late Stoicism with extended commentary on moral instruction.)

  • Flower, E. and Murphey, M.G. (1977) A History of Philosophy in America, vol. 2, New York: Putnam.

    (The long chapter on Dewey provides an excellent overview of his thought.)

  • Froebel, F. (1826) Die Menschenerziehung (The Education of Man), trans. W.N. Hailmann, Clifton, NJ: Keeley, 1974.

    (The earliest and most systematic of Froebel’s educational works.)

  • Garforth, F.W. (1980) Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    (A detailed account of Mill’s views on education and its role in society.)

  • Herbart, J.H. (1804–6) Über die ästhetische Darstellung der Welt als das Hauptgeschäft der Erziehung; Allgemeine Pädagogik aus dem Zweck der Erziehung abgeleitet (The Science of Education, Its General Principles Deduced From Its Aim, and the Aesthetic Revelation of the World), trans. with intro. H.M. Felkin and E. Felkin, Boston, MA: Heath, 1892.

    (A work of practical pedagogical theory.)

  • Herbart, J.H. (1836) Umriß von pädagogischen Vorlesungen (Outlines of Educational Doctrine), trans. A.F. Lange, notes C. De Garmo, London: Macmillan, 1901.

    (A theoretical enquiry into how education is possible.)

  • Hobbes, T. (1651) Leviathan: Or The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical and Civil, ed., intro. and notes E. Curley, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1994.

    (The most important of Hobbes’ works of political philosophy.)

  • Hobbes, T. (1668) Behemoth, ed. W. Molesworth, Source Works Series No. 38, New York: Burt Franklin Research, 1962.

    (Reveals Hobbes’ view of the role of the universities in the English Civil War.)

  • Hook, S. (1946) Education For Modern Man: A New Perspective, New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

    (An elaboration and defence of Dewey’s philosophy of education.)

  • Kant, I. (1775–80) Eine Vorlesung Kants Über Ethik im Auftrage der Kantgesellschaft (Lectures on Ethics) trans. L. Infield, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980.

    (See especially ‘The Ethical Systems of the Ancients’; ‘Conscience’; ‘Self-Mastery’; ‘Duties Towards Particular Classes of Human Beings’; ‘Duties Arising From Differences of Age’; and ‘The Ultimate Destiny of the Human Race’.)

  • Kant, I. (1784–98) Political Writings, ed., intro. and notes H. Reiss, trans. H.B. Nisbet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

    (See especially the essays ‘Idea For a Universal History With a Cosmopolitan Purpose’; ‘An Answer to the Question: “What is Enlightenment?”’; ‘The Contest of Faculties’; and ‘Conjectures on the Beginning of Human History’.)

  • Kant, I. (1803) Über Pädagogik (Kant on Education), trans. A. Churton, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1992.

    (A compilation of Kant’s notes and published remarks on education.)

  • Kraut, R. (1992) The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (Many important aspects of Plato’s educational philosophy are examined in this accessible guide to his thought.)

  • Lloyd, S.A. (1992) Ideals as Interests in Hobbes’s Leviathan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (An interpretation which takes seriously the important role of education in the Leviathan.)

  • Locke, J. (1689) Essay Concerning Human Understanding, ed. P.H. Nidditch, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.

    (A seminal work in the theory of ideas and knowledge.)

  • Locke, J. (1690) Second Treatise of Government, ed. and intro. C.B. Macpherson, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1980.

    (A political work which includes remarks on the educational duties of parents.)

  • Locke, J. (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education, ed., intro. and notes J.W. Yolton and J.S. Yolton, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.

    (Locke’s principal work on education.)

  • Locke, J. (1706) Of the Conduct of the Understanding, ed., intro. and notes T. Fowler, New York: Burt Franklin, 1971.

    (Reprint of 1882 edition. A treatise on the cultivation of the intellect.)

  • Maritain, J. (1943) Education at the Crossroads, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

    (An influential elaboration of a twentieth-century Catholic philosophy of education.)

  • Marrou, H. (1956) A History of Education in Antiquity, trans. G. Lamb, London: Sheed & Ward.

    (A readable account of educational theory and practice down through the Hellenistic, Roman and early medieval periods.)

  • Marrou, H. (1957) St. Augustine and His Influence Through the Ages, New York: Harper & Brothers.

    (Standard interpretation of the educational aspects of Augustine’s thought and influence.)

  • Marx, K. (1845–6) Die deutsche Ideologie (The German Ideology), pt 1, with selections from pts 2 and 3, ed. C.J. Arthur, trans. W. Lough, C. Dutt and C.P. Magill, New York: International Publishers, 1974.

    (The only work by Marx expressly concerned with ideology.)

  • Marx, K. (1867) Das Kapital (Capital), vol. 1, ed. F. Engles, trans. S. Moore and Aveling, New York: International Publishers, 1967.

    (An important source of Marx’s ideas about ideology.)

  • Masters, R.D. (1968) The Political Writings of Rousseau, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    (A general and very readable commentary offering an extended examination of Émile as its point of departure.)

  • Mill, J.S. (1859) On Liberty, ed. E. Rapaport, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1978.

    (An important source of liberal, educational and cultural theory.)

  • Mill, J.S. (1867) ‘Inaugural Address at the University of St. Andrews’, in John Stuart Mill on Education, ed., intro. and notes F.W. Garforth, New York: Teachers College Press, 1971.

    (This volume also contains the parts of Mill’s Autobiography which are of educational interest.)

  • Mill, J.S. (1873) Autobiography, ed. R. Howson, New York: Columbia University Press, 1944.

    (Includes a lengthy account of Mill’s own education and commentary on it.)

  • Nehamas, A. (1992) ‘What Did Socrates Teach And To Whom Did He Teach It?’, Review of Metaphysics 46 (4): 279–306.

    (An examination of Socrates’ denial that he was a teacher, with useful discussion of other interpretations.)

  • Nietzsche, F. (1872) Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten (On the Future of Our Educational Institutions), in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, vol. 3, ed. O. Levy, trans. J.M. Kennedy, New York: Russell & Russell, 1924.

    (A critique of the democratization of the universities.)

  • Nietzsche, F. (1874) Schopenhauer als Erzieher (Schopenhauer as Educator), trans. J.W. Hillesheim and M.R. Simpson, Chicago, IL: Regnery Gateway, Inc., 1965.

    (On what it means to be a teacher of mankind.)

  • Painter, F. (1889) Luther on Education, St. Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House.

    (A readable but not impartial history with translations of Luther’s two notable educational works.)

  • Pestalozzi, J. (1777–1826) Pestalozzi’s Educational Writings, ed. J.A. Green and F. Collie, London: Longmans, 1912.

    (A selection of his diverse educational works.)

  • Plato (390s–350s) Complete Works, ed. J. Cooper, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1996.

    (The dialogues of most direct relevance are the Euthydemus, Protagoras, Meno, Gorgias, Symposium, Republic, Theaetetus and Laws.)

  • Price, K. (1967) Education and Philosophical Thought, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2nd edn.

    (An introductory but dated history, with selections from major figures.)

  • Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) (c. 92) Institutio Oratoria (The Education of an Orator), vols. 1–4, text and trans. H.E. Butler, London: Heinemann, 1920–2.

    (On rhetoric and the principles of education.)

  • Reeve, C.D.C. (1988) Philosopher-Kings, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

    (An excellent treatment of the Republic and its educational proposals.)

  • Rousseau, J.-J. (1750–62) The Basic Political Writings of Jean–Jacques Rousseau, trans. D.A. Cress, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Company, 1987.

    (Includes the first and second Discourses, Political Economy, and On the Social Contract.)

  • Rousseau, J.-J. (1762) Émile, (or On Education), trans. A. Bloom, New York: Basic Books, 1979.

    (Rousseau’s principal work on education.)

  • Schiller, F. (1795) Briefe über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen (On The Aesthetic Education of Man: In a Series of Letters), trans. E.M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.

    (A seminal defence of aesthetic education as the means to develop both sensibility and rationality. See §8 above.)

  • Schouls, P. (1989) Descartes and the Enlightenment, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

    (A detailed discussion of the aspects of Descartes’ thought bearing on his concept of good instruction, and their influence on the Enlightenment.)

  • Sherman, N. (1989) The Fabric of Character, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    (A sophisticated account of Aristotle’s theory of virtue and character education.)

  • Sullivan, R. (1989) Immanuel Kant’s Moral Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (A comprehensive and lucid interpretation, with an appendix on moral education.)

  • Ulich, R. (1954) Three Thousand Years of Educational Wisdom: Selections From Great Documents, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

    (Useful as an introduction to texts and traditions in educational thought which could not be included here.)

  • Whitehead, A.N. (1929) The Aims of Education, New York: Macmillan.

    (Apart from Dewey, possibly the most significant work in philosophy of education from the first half of the twentieth century.)

  • Woodward, W. (1904) Desiderius Erasmus: Concerning the Aim and Method of Education, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    (A historical and expository essay and translations of the major educational writings.)

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