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The Froebelian and Montessori methods had three things in common with one another. This form of system-constructing across epistemological, ethical, and social/political issues is what the good philosophers do, and it’s revealing that for them philosophy of education was rarely seen as a definite space of inquiry but merely the working out in apply of implications for teaching and learning that were derived from their larger positions about reality, value, justice, and so on.

Then, people or groups inside the society might have conflicting full-fledged philosophies of education, but the public philosophy of education is a working lodging between them. …