St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work is divided into:


Series Editor's Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Part 1: Intellectual Biography
1 Approaching Augustine
Part 2: Critical Explosion
2 The Aims of Education
3 The Art of the Teacher
4 The Matter of Liberal Education
5 The Limits of Education
Part 3: Philosophical Reception and Relevance
6 Augustine and Some Philosophers of Education
7 St. Augustine and the Defense of Liberal Education

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Index