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Robin Barrow read Greats at Oxford University and obtained his PhD from the University of London. He was Reader in Philosophy of Education at the University of Leicester, before moving to Simon Fraser University in Canada as Professor of Philosophy of Education in 1982. From 1992-2002 he was Dean of Education. He is the author of twenty-four books and a hundred or so papers in the fields of classics, philosophy and education.

"'It is time to return to first principles in our educational deliberations, and, in so doing, it is difficult to imagine a more congenial or saner guide than Robin Barrow.' Patrick Keeney, Independent scholar and Editor for Prospero, Kelowna, B.C., Canada"

• Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of the thinker's work; The reception and influence of the work; The relevance of the work today; Bibliography; Index.