Where We Are Going

Abstract

This is a selection of essays in the philosophy of education. Some friends, and indeed some enemies, even without my suggestion would describe it as a one-man volume of philosophical Black Papers. But it certainly is not an idle and uncomplicated reprinting in new book form of work already once published somewhere else. For nearly half the material is quite fresh, while all the rest has been revised more or less drastically. Nor are all the chapters essays in the philosophy of education, and nothing else. This exclusive characterisation is tolerably apt for the three chapters in Part Two. But the four in the longer Part One have an equally strong claim to rate as contributions to the philosophy of the social sciences.