The Promise of Wisdom

🔖 The finest book on the philosophy of education since Dewey's Democracy and Education and Whitehead's Aims of Education. Gray presents education as the promise of wisdom, as a program to help "reconcile the individual and his world"! The flaws in educational theory and practice are seen as distractions from and frustrations of that goal. The Promise of Wisdom is a reasoned treatise on the relation of theory and principle to practice (marvelously free of mini-Marxist ideology) and a sustained critique of the isolated and piecemeal counterfeits of education.