A systematic analysis of the work of representative Western philosophers on education, including Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Comenius, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Pestalozzi, Herbart, and Dewey.
The course is a history of educational ideas which treats the theories
both as products of the particular context in which they were first created
and as stimuli for later theoretical development. The interrelated educational
dialogues, which encompass different philosophical orientations beginning
with Plato and ending with Dewey, are presented in historical sequence.
The major focus is on epistemological, metaphysical, and methodological
issues.