The Voice Of Liberal Learning – Michael Oakeshott On Education

In a period of renewed controversy over the nature and direction of education, the voice stands out of Michael Oakeshott, distinguished Hobbes scholar, author of On Human Conduct, and arguably Britain's leading political philosopher of this century. Here, for the first time, Timothy Fuller brings together Oakeshott's major writings on education. These remarkable essays distil a lifetime of reflection on the historic character of liberal learning and the strength of the Western university tradition; they are essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of education and what it must learn from its past.
'Oakeshott's work on education is lucid, witty and timeless. It will be indispensable to any serious course on the philosophy of education'_-Kenneth
Minogue
'Searching essays on the essential aims of education' The Independent
'Oakeshott, bird-bright and razor-sharp... (the essays] have such a tight unity about them and such an exact relevance to our present concerns'_The Sunday Telegraph
Oakeshott has the gift of exemplifying the virtues he inculcates'-The New
Republic
Timothy Fuller is professor and chairman of the department of political science at Colorado College.