MCE606 Great Books on Education
This course exposes students to a series of writings on the philosophy of education by some of the greatest minds in the Western Tradition. Texts will likely include Plato’s Republic (selections), Aristotle’s Politics (Book VIII), Augustine On the Teacher, Aquinas On the Teacher, Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education, Rousseau’s Emile (selections), John Dewey (select writings), St. John Henry Newman’s The Idea of the University.