# What is Education for?: The View of the Great Thinkers and Their Relevance Today

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- Authors: [Nicholas Tate](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-tate)
- Publisher: john_catt
- ISBN: 978-19-0971-740-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2015-07-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Dr Nicholas Tate looks at the philosophies of 10 great thinkers from history and explains how their ideas put current education issues into a new perspective, while suggesting additional ones to be addressed. The aim is to show how engaging with interesting past minds can both help put current issues in a new perspective and suggest additional ones to be addressed.