What Is Education?
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Introduction
2 Trafficking in Truth
3 Preconditions of Education
4 Unifying Essence and Existence
5 Making Subjects Matter
6 In Pursuit of Perfection
7 Education as a Moral Enterprise
Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
“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 essay, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about Philip Jackson, about Jackson reading Dewey, about the nature of reading and interpretation, and about the aims of education as a cultural and truth-generating activity and as a personal quest. In the process, Jackson discusses different kinds of truth, from factual to conceptual to speculative, moral, and personal, and then uses this discussion to develop a vision for the renewal of education. Through his use of philosophy and 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.”
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