Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

Frank Furedi: public speaking

Saturday 31 October 2009 at 10:30am, Royal College of Art, London, SW7 2EU
Rethinking Education: a new national debate

Is talk of ‘education as an end in itself’ any more than romanticism? Hasn’t education always been valued for instrumental reasons, or is there something uniquely philistine about contemporary approaches to education? What do current debates about education really represent?  What constitutes education and what is its purpose?’ What - ideally - is education for?

Part of the Battle of Ideas festival.

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