Interview

Randall Curren

Randall Curren is Professor of Philosophy and Education and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester, NY. His works include Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education. He is the editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, of the journal Theory and Research in Education, and also of the recently published Philosophy of Education: An Anthology. Tim Madigan talks to him.

How did you get into the field of the philosophy of education?

I started reading in the philosophy of education when I was in high school in the early 1970s. I discovered philosophy early, in my sophomore year, by browsing in a local bookstore. I quickly found my way to Bertrand Russell. I think my collection was about three dozen books by Russell. I tried to read all of them, with greater or lesser success, and then I tried to read the people Russell talked about.

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