I do not believe the practices of our current public education reflect the aims of “Philosophy on education” from Plato to Dewey because of the Context Statement and questions Rorty ask in The Ruling History of Education. What are the directions and limits of public education in a liberal plura...

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education,” (Mark Twain). This, coming from arguably one of the best writers in western literature, is saying that education and schooling are two very different and separate things. The way he words this, he is implying that his education is mor...