THE great books assembled in this set are off ered as means to a liberal or general
education. Th e authors of these books were educated men; more than that,
they typifi ed the ideal of education in their various epochs. As their writings
reveal, their minds were largely formed, or at least deeply impressed, by reading
the works of their predecessors. Many of them were related as teacher and student,
sometimes through personal contact, sometimes only through the written
word. Many of them were related as divergent disciples of the same master, yet
they oft en diff ered with him as well as with one another. Th ere is scarcely one
among them—except Homer—who was not acquainted with the minds of the
others who came before him and, more oft en than not, profoundly conversant
with their thought.
Yet not one of the writings in this set is specifi cally a treatise on education,
except Montaigne’s essay Of the Education of Children. Some of these authors
speak more or less fully of their own education, as does Marcus Aurelius in the
opening book of his Meditations, Augustine in his Confessions, Descartes in his
Discourse, and Boswell. Others refer to their educational experience in fi ctional
guise, as does Aristophanes in the argument in the Clouds between the Just and
Unjust Discourses; or Rabelais when he tells of Gargantua’s schooling in Gargantua’s
letter to Pantagruel. Sometimes they report the way in which other men
were trained to greatness, as does Plutarch; or, like Gibbon, Hegel, and Mill,
they describe and comment on the historic systems of education.
In still other instances the great books contain sections or chapters devoted
to the ends and means of education, the order of studies, the nature of learning
and teaching, the training of statesmen and citizens; as for example, Plato’s
Republic, Aristotle’s Politics, Augustine’s Christian Doctrine, Bacon’s Advancement
of Learning, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,
and the psychological writings of James and Freud. But in no case is education
the principal theme of these books, as it is for most of the works cited in the list
of Additional Readings, among which will be found treatises on education by
authors in this set.
EDUCATION is not itself so much an idea or a subject matter as it is a theme to
which the great ideas and the basic subject matters are relevant. It is one of the
perennial practical problems which men cannot discuss without engaging in the
deepest speculative considerations. It is a problem which carries discussion into
and across a great many subject matters—the liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric,
and logic; psychology, medicine, metaphysics, and theology;, ethics, politics, and
economics. It is a problem which draws into focus many of the great ideas—virtue
and truth, knowledge and opinion, art and science; desire, will, sense, memory,
mind, habit; change and progress; family and state; man, nature, and God.
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