Education of Character: The Psychology of Children Going to School

The Nobel Prize winner explores the role of early childhood education in building personal character.

In Education of Character, great twentieth-century philosopher Bertrand Russell goes beyond math or history and into the larger purposes of education. What do we want our children to be like as people? What kind of future community do we want to build? And what approaches are most likely to achieve the results we want?

Taking the discoveries of modern psychology into account, Russell n...