Introduction: education and political power / Christopher Brooke and Elizabeth Frazer -- Socrates, Plato, Eros and liberal education / Mark L. McPherran -- Aristotle's educational politics and the Aristotelian renaissance in the philosophy of education / Randall Curren -- Philosophy and education in Stoicism of the Roman Imperial era / G. Reydams-Schils -- Medieval theories of education: Hugh of St.Victor and John of Salisbury / Brian D.Fitzgerald -- Education, Erasmian humanism and More's Utopia / John M. Parrish -- Teaching the Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes on Education / Teresa M. Bejan -- Locke on education and the rights of parents / Alex Tuckness -- Rousseau's philosophy of transformative de-naturing education / Patrick Riley -- Educational theory and the social vision of the Scottish enlightenment / Ryan Patrick Hanley -- Mary Wollstonecraft and Catharine Macaulay on education / Elizabeth Frazer -- Bildung and the reform of German higher education / Alexander Schmidt -- Education and Utopia: Robert Owen and Charles Fourier / David Leopold -- Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian tradition in education / Ruth Watts -- J.S.Mill on education / Alan Ryan -- Feminist thinking on education in Victorian England / Laura Schwartz -- Idealism and education / Andrew Vincent -- 'Affection in education': Edward Carpenter John Addington Symonds and theJosephine Crawley Quinn and politics of Greek love / Christopher Brooke -- John Dewey: saviour of American education or worse than Hitler? / Richard Pring.