Brazil compounds the problem by training teachers in neither subject matter nor teaching skills (they learn about the philosophy of education instead).

ECONOMIST: Education in Brazil

The state of philosophy teaching in the region and its challenges at all levels of education will be discussed.

UNESCO: THEMES

Staff needed to be convinced that this accorded with the school's philosophy of open dissemination of knowledge and information, and the local education authority's historic reluctance to endorse free software had to be overcome.

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So the purpose of teaching philosophy was - and remains, in theory - to complete the education of young men and women and permit them to think.

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As an academic discipline, he says, education has been heavily influenced by post-modernism the school of philosophy in which all meaning is regarded as subjective and all truth as relative.

ECONOMIST: The science of education