Download or read book What is Education for?: The View of the Great Thinkers and Their Relevance Today written by Nicholas Tate and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.