Introduction

Differing Perspectives on What It Means to Be Educated

1  Socrates and Plato

2  Aristotle

3  John Locke

4  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

5  Catharine Macaulay

6  Conflicting Educational Visions:The Puritans and Thomas Jefferson

7  Local vs. Centralized Control of Schooling

8  John Dewey

9  Traditional versus Progressive Education:The Great Debate

10  Education:  The Panacea for African-Americans

11  Maxine Greene

12  Jane Roland Martin

13  Paulo Freire

14  Nel Noddings

15  Philosophy for Children: Matthew Lipman, Gareth Matthews, and Kieran Egan

16  Parker J. Palmer