To accompany my Philosophy of Education course lectures on video, here are readings from key philosophers.
Idealism: Plato (the Allegory of the Cave from Republic) and Immanuel Kant (from On Education).
Realism: Aristotle (from Politics) and John Locke (from Some Thoughts concerning Education).
Pragmatism: John Dewey (from Democracy and Education).
Behaviorism: B. F. Skinner (from Beyond Freedom and Dignity).
Existentialism: Jean-Paul Sartre (from Existentialism Is a Humanism) and Albert Camus (“The Myth of Sisyphus”).
Objectivism: Ayn Rand (“The Comprachicos” and selected quotations).
Montessori: Maria Montessori (The Montessori Method and selected quotations).
Marxism: Karl Marx (from Theses on Feuerbach and The Holy Family).
Postmodernism: Henry Giroux (from Border Pedagogy as Postmodern Resistance).
Related: My fifteen-lecture series on Philosophy of Education is also available at YouTube via these playlists.