Education
EDUCATION Peters have proposed precise definitions by spelling out the necessary and sufficient conditions of education, for example: it is concerned with the transmission of knowledge and understanding this transmission is worthwhile and done in a morally appropriate manner in tune with the student's interests. This and similar attempts are often successful at characterizing the most paradigmatic forms of education but have received numerous criticisms nonetheless, usually in the form of specific counterexamples for which the proposed criteria fail. These difficulties have led various theorists to develop less precise conceptions based on family resemblance. Teacher-centered definitions focus on the perspective and role of the teacher, for example, in ...