Front cover of ‘Education for Virtue and Other Essays’ by Nicholas Tate

Education for Virtue and Other Essays

Szerzők

Nicholas Tate
Mathias Corvinus Collegium
https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7648-5785

Absztrakt

In this book the author, historian and educator, in a selection of his writings over many years, raises fundamental questions about education in schools and universities: What is education for? What role do schools play in transmitting a more than 2,000-year-old civilisation from one generation to the next? Why have we ceased to talk about education for virtue? Is it legitimate for schools to promote a sense of national identity? What is the best way to ensure that the elites emerging from our educational institutions govern for the common good rather than for themselves? Why is learning about the past so important? 
These and other issues are addressed through essays, short pieces of journalism, speeches, and articles for scholarly journals. A common thread is the contribution that great thinkers – from Plato and Aristotle to José Ortega y Gasset and Hannah Arendt, many of whom were also teachers themselves – are able to make to educational issues that were as relevant 2,500 years ago as they are today. Nicholas Tate also draws on his own experience to highlight the challenges and opportunities facing educational leaders in trying to maintain a focus on education as a process of self-improvement that may begin in schools but continues throughout life.

Információk a szerzőről

Nicholas Tate, Mathias Corvinus Collegium

A historian who, over a career in education spanning more than fifty years, has been a teacher, headmaster, teacher educator, school and university governor, chief executive of England’s school curriculum and assessment authorities, and adviser to ministers of education in England and France. He has lived and worked in England, Scotland, Spain, France, and Switzerland. He has written widely on educational topics, especially on the history of educational thought in What is Education For? and The Conservative Case for Education, on inter­national education, and, in his latest book, Seven Books that Everyone Once Read and No One Now Does, on the role of great books in people’s lives. His most recent position was as Adviser to the Learning Institute of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Hungary.

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Front cover of ‘Education for Virtue and Other Essays’ by Nicholas Tate

Megjelenés

2026.06.03

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