More on "On Education"
An already noted, I recently purchased Harry Brighouse's new book On Education and I've just now finished reading the first two chapters. These present arguments supporting the propositions that:
- we ought to education students to be autonomous (i.e: capable of deciding upon a way of life that suits them; able to follow such a way of life; etc.); and
- we ought to educate students so that they are able to engage with the economy, and not to fulfill certain economic needs.
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Thomas Sutton 14 April 2006