(article ) What is Education?

August 2019

The questionable invention of education

The problem of the invention of education

The problem of the invention of education Our understanding of the invention of education in Ancient Greece is mistaken. We miss education altogether by reading back our obsessive preoccupation with modern schooling. The conventional story tells of a competition between the traditions of the philosophers and the sophists, but the sophists contributed nothing novel – […]

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The problem of the invention of education Our understanding of the invention of education in Ancient Greece is mistaken. We miss education altogether by reading back our obsessive preoccupation with modern schooling. The conventional story tells of a competition between the traditions of the philosophers and the sophists, but the sophists contributed nothing novel –

Personal experience and public performance: The two sides of a genuinely educational practice

NOTICE: This piece is posted separately in the “articles” section of this blog, but it will eventually be incorporated as the third chapter of Part 3 of “Education as if our lives depended on it. It will be posted there along with two other chapters in preparation, and when some re-ordering has been completed. I

Personal experience and public performance: The two sides of a genuinely educational practice Read More »

NOTICE: This piece is posted separately in the “articles” section of this blog, but it will eventually be incorporated as the third chapter of Part 3 of “Education as if our lives depended on it. It will be posted there along with two other chapters in preparation, and when some re-ordering has been completed. I