Description:
This article questions the idea that it is the business of philosophy of educationto justify educational programmes or courses in philosophical or existentialcounselling, for example in adult education. It argues that the proper task ofphilosophy of education is a creative and critical reflection, whilst the propertask of education is to use or implement the insights that philosophy of edu-cation provides. The two practices are related but should not be conflated.The article starts by sketching philosophy of education after the pragmatic ordiscursive turn, proceeds by describing philosophers like Kierkegaard, Witt-genstein and Dewey as anti-educational, and concludes by proposing thatpolitical education is what we need in the present crisis of democracy.