Reading R. S. Peters Today: Analysis, Ethics, and the Aims of Education -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Reading R. S. Peters on Education Today -- I. The Conceptual Analysis of Education and Teaching -- 1: Was Peters Nearly Right About Education? -- 2: Learning Our Concepts -- 3: On Education and Initiation -- 4: Ritual, Imitation and Education in R. S. Peters -- 5: Transformation and Education: the Voice of the Learner in Peters' Concept of Teaching -- II. The Justification of Educational Aims and the Curriculum -- 6: R. S. Peters' Normative Conception of Education and Educational Aims -- 7: On the Worthwhileness of Theoretical Activities -- 8: Why General Education? Peters, Hirst and History -- 9: The Good, the Worthwhile and the Obligatory: Practical Reason and Moral Universalism in R. S. Peters' Conception of Education -- 10: Overcoming Social Pathologies in Education: On the Concept of Respect in R. S. Peters and Axel Honneth -- III. Aspects of Ethical Development and Moral Education -- 11: Reason and Virtues: The Paradox of R. S. Peters on Moral Education -- 12: Autonomy in R. S. Peters' Educational Theory -- IV. Peters in Context -- 13: Richard Peters and Valuing Authenticity -- 14: Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education: R. S. Peters on the Legacy of Michael Oakeshott -- Index.