How can we make children 'better'? Better learners, better human beings... The question is as old as the hills and intensified by modernity: global terror, bullying and violence in schools, not to mention youthful insolence to which we lack a collective response. Be good? scoffs the young millennial. What for?
Curricular reform, radical inclusion, scientific enhancement: the book opposes these fashionable solutions. With a word like 'better' as our focus of concern, it is argued that philosophy in its original sense - a devotion to the ideal of wisdom rather than policy imperatives - is...