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Book SynopsisMost contemporary approaches to education follow a strictly empirical track, aiming to discover pragmatic solutions for teachers and school administrators. This title offers a philosophical exploration of how we transmit knowledge in human society and how we think about accomplishing that vital task.
Trade Review"This is some of the very best educational-or philosophical-writing I have read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern classic, What Is Education? is a remarkable book, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about the nature of reading and interpretation and about the aims of education as a truth-generating activity as well as a personal quest. Through his use of philosophy, pedagogy, and even in his innovative interpretations of poets such as Wallace Stevens, Jackson displays the qualities Dewey promoted, namely a truly engaged, inquiring mind." -Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"
