Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One The Individual and Society ; 1 Was Plato Nearly Right about Education?; 2 The Paradoxes in Rousseau's Emile; 3 Democratic Values and Educational Aims; Part Two Tradition and Progressivism ; 4 Herbert Spencer's Scientific Progressivism; 5 John Dewey's Philosophy of Education; 6 Michael Oakeshott's Philosophy of Education; Part Three Interdisciplinary Critiques ; 7 The Place of Kohlberg's Theory in Moral Education; 8 Motivation and Education; Index