Provides an overview of the disctinctive thinking of a fascinating mix of educational pioneers and thinkers from the canon of philosophers and philosophical schools from the classical, medieval, early modern and modern. Includes: Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Humboldt, Utopian socialists, J.S. Mill, Carpenter and Dewey.

Christopher Brooke is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol, UK.

Elizabeth Frazer is Official Fellow and Tutor in Politics at New College, Oxford, and Lecturer in Politics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction: Education and Political Power Christopher Brooke and Elizabeth Frazer 1: Socrates, Plato, Eros and Liberal Education Mark L. McPherran 2: Aristotle's Educational Politics and the Aristotelian Renaissance in the Philosophy of Education Randall Curren 3: Philosophy and Education in Stoicism of the Roman Imperial Era Gretchen J. Reydams-Schils 4: Medieval Theories of Education: Hugh of St. Victor and John of Salisbury Brian D. Fitzgerald 5: Education, Erasmian Humanism and More's Utopia John M. Parrish 6: Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education Teresa M. Bejan 7: Locke on Education and the Rights of Parents Alex Tuckness 8: Rousseau's Philosophy of Transformative De-naturing Education Patrick Riley 9: Educational Theory and the Social Vision of the Scottish Enlightenment Ryan Patrick Hanley 10: Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on Education Elizabeth Frazer 11: Bildung and the Reform of German Higher Education Alexander Schmidt 12: Education and Utopia: Robert Owen and Charles Fourier David Leopold 13: Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition in Education Ruth Watts 14: J. S. Mill on Education Alan Ryan 15: Feminist Thinking on Education in Victorian England Laura Schwartz 16: Idealism and Education Andrew Vincent 17: 'Affection in Education': Edward Carpenter, John Addington Symonds and the Politics of Greek Love Josephine Crawley Quinn and Christopher Brooke 18: John Dewey: Saviour of American Education or Worse than Hitler? Richard Pring