Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Part 1 Intellectual Biography -- Chapter 1 Approaching Augustine -- Introduction -- Augustine's life and times -- Augustine's intellectual development -- Reading Augustine -- The method of this book -- Notes -- Part 2 Critical Exposition -- Chapter 2 The Aims of Education -- Introduction -- The ends of education -- Happiness and learning -- Happiness and virtue -- Education and the highest good -- Chapter 3 The Art of the Teacher -- Introduction -- Illumination and the aim of the teacher -- The methods of the teacher -- Hilaritas and the dispositions of the teacher -- The possibility of skepticism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Matter of Liberal Education -- Introduction -- Cassiciacum and the liberal arts tradition -- Cassiciacum and the disciplines -- Liberal learning and the Confessions -- De doctrina Christiana and the turn to the Bible -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Limits to Education -- Introduction -- Progress and history -- The moral possibilities of society -- The limits of virtue -- Notes -- Part 3 Philosophical Reception and Relevance -- Chapter 6 Augustine and Some Philosophers of Education -- Hugh of St. Victor's Didascalicon (ca. 1120) -- Aquinas' De Magistro (ca. 1256) -- Erasmus of Rotterdam's Antibarbari (1520) -- Augustine's legacy in modern times -- Contemporary Scholarship on Augustine -- Chapter 7 St. Augustine and the Defense of Liberal Education -- I: The Context of Debate on Liberal Education -- II: St. Augustine's Defence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- English translations of Augustine's texts commonly cited -- Classical, patristic, and medieval works -- Secondary literature -- Index.