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In this original philosophical dialogue, an immigration officer and a traveling philosopher explore some of the most challenging issues and ethical conundrums of our time.

Do our thoughts and claims about the world give us rational access to the way the world really is? Can subjective experience ever provide a basis for grasping objec-tive truth? These perennial philosophical questions reach to the heart of every human endeavor, from education to science to everyday, successful practice. De-spite the intuitive and nearly universal appeal of realism, influential thinkers from many fields - including educational theory, psychology, cybernetics, literary criti-cism, biology, and physics - have long followed the skeptics in denying knowers any kind of reliable...

Do our thoughts and claims about the world give us rational access to the way the world really is? Can subjective experience ever provide a basis for grasping objec-tive truth? These perennial philosophical questions reach to the heart of every human endeavor, from education to science to everyday, successful practice. De-spite the intuitive and nearly universal appeal of realism, influential thinkers from many fields - including educational theory, psychology, cybernetics, literary criti-cism, biology, and physics - have long followed the skeptics in denying knowers any kind of reliable...

Teaching is a paradoxical activity, beset by ironies and apparent contradictions. Educated people are autonomous and self-directed, but schooling generally involves expert direction of compliant and dependent students. Empathy, imagination, and creativity characterize fully actualized people, but these qualities seem at odds with mastering received bodies of material.