In 1948 the National Party won the election in South Africa and introduced its coverage of apartheid. Prior to that he was Reader in the Philosophy of Education at the University of Leicester, UK. A previous Vice-Chair of the Philosophy of Education Society, GB, and past President of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society, he’s the creator of some 25 books in the fields of philosophy, schooling and classics, the newest of that are Plato (Continuum) and An Introduction to MoralPage xPhilosophy and Moral Education (Routledge).
It emerges that in pluralistic societies such because the Western democracies there are some groups that don’t wholeheartedly assist the development of autonomous people, for such people can weaken a bunch from inside by pondering for themselves and challenging communal norms and beliefs; from the perspective of groups whose survival is thus threatened, formal, state-offered schooling shouldn’t be necessarily a good thing.
Plato’s writings …