Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Life in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, and John Dewey and the Philosopher's Task.

"This is some of the very best educational-or philosophical-writing I have read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern classic, What Is Education? is a remarkable book, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about the nature of reading and interpretation and about the aims of education as a truth-generating activity as well as a personal quest. Through his use of philosophy, pedagogy, and even in his innovative interpretations of poets such as Wallace Stevens, Jackson displays the qualities Dewey promoted, namely a truly engaged, inquiring mind." -Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Life in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, and John Dewey and the Philosopher's Task.

"This is some of the very best educational-or philosophical-writing I have read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern classic, What Is Education? is a remarkable book, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about the nature of reading and interpretation and about the aims of education as a truth-generating activity as well as a personal quest. Through his use of philosophy, pedagogy, and even in his innovative interpretations of poets such as Wallace Stevens, Jackson displays the qualities Dewey promoted, namely a truly engaged, inquiring mind." -Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

Philip W. Jackson is the David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Education and Psychology and in the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Life in Classrooms, The Practice of Teaching, and John Dewey and the Philosopher's Task.

"This is some of the very best educational-or philosophical-writing I have read. Bearing the hallmarks of a modern classic, What Is Education? is a remarkable book, sometimes personal, always scholarly, about the nature of reading and interpretation and about the aims of education as a truth-generating activity as well as a personal quest. Through his use of philosophy, pedagogy, and even in his innovative interpretations of poets such as Wallace Stevens, Jackson displays the qualities Dewey promoted, namely a truly engaged, inquiring mind." -Walter Feinberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"