Explores contemporary and historical philosophical thinking about education, including such topics as intelligence, critical thinking, and educational testing. Notes on Contributors.Preface.Introduction. (Randall Curren).Part I: Historical And Contemporary Movements.1. The Socratic Movement. (C. D. C. Reeve).2. Stoicism. (Christopher Gill).3. The Judaic tradition. (Hanan A. Alexander and Shmuel Glick).4. The Educational Thought of Augustine. (Gareth B. Matthews).5. Humanism. (Craig Kallendorf).6. Enlightenment Liberalism. (Amy M. Schmitter , Nathan Tarcov,and Wendy Donner).7. Rousseau, Dewey and Democracy. (Patrick Riley and Jennifer Welchman).8. Kant, Hegel and the Rise of Pedagogical Science. (G. Felicitas Munzel).9. Romanticism. (Frederick C. Beiser).10. The Past as Future? Hellenism, the Gymnasium and Altertumswissenschaft. (Wolfgang Mann).11. Critical Theory. (Douglas Kellner).12. The Analytical Movement. (Randall Curren, Emily Robertson and Paul Hager).13. Feminism. (Jane Roland Martin).14. Postmodernism. (David E. Cooper).Part II: Teaching And Learning.15. The Nature and Purposes of Education. (Paul Standish).16. Theories of teaching and learning. (D. C. Phillips).17. The Capacity to Learn. (Carol Wren and Thomas Wren).18. Motivation and Classroom Management. (Richard Ryan and Martin Lynch).19. The Measurement of Learning. (Andrew Davis).20. Knowledge, Truth and Learning. (Jonathan E. Adler).21. Cultivating Reason. (Harvey Siegel).22. Moral Education. (Graham Haydon).23. Religious Education. (Gabriel Moran).24. Teaching Science. (Michael R. Matthews).25. Teaching Elementary Arithmetic Through Applications. (Mark Steiner).26. Aesthetics and the Educative Powers of Art. (Noël Carroll).27. Teaching Literature. (Richard Smithm).Part III: The Politics And Ethics Of Schooling.28. The Authority and Responsibility to Educate. (Amy Gutmann).29. Church, State and Education.(William Galston).30. Common Schooling and Educational Choice. (Rob Reich).31. Children s Rights. (James Dwyer).32. Education and Standards of Living. (Christian Barry).33. Educational Equality and Justice. (Harry Brighouse).34. Multicultural Education. (Robert K. Fullinwider).35. Education and the Politics of Identity. (Yael Tamir).36. The Ethics of Teaching. (Kenneth A. Strike).37. Inclusion and Justice in Special Education. (Robert F. Ladenson).38. Sex Education. (David Archard).Part IV: Higher Education.39. Ethics and the Aims of American Higher Education. (Minda Rae Amiran).40. Universities in a Fluid Age. (Ronald Barnett).41. Academic Freedom. (Robert L. Simon).42. The Ethics of Research. (Michael Davis).43. Affirmative action in Higher Education. (Bernard Boxill).44. The Professor Student Relationship and the Regulation of Student Life. (Peter J. Markie).45. The Role of Ethics in Professional Education. (Norman E. Bowie).Index.