This section addresses the philosophical issues that need to underpin education in democratic societies. It looks at the questions, problems and opportunities that today’s young people will most likely be confronted with in the 21st century.

John Barrow, The Constants of Nature

Robert A. Hinde, Why Good is Good: the Sources of Morality

David Snowdon, Ageing with Grace: the Science of Old Age

Steve Jones, The Descent of Men

Chris Woodhead, The State of British Education

Skoyles & Sagan, Up from the Dragons: The Evolution of Human Intelligence

Jonathan Marks, What it means to be 98% Chimpanzee: apes, people & their genes

John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals

David Hicks, Lessons for the Future: the Missing Dimension in Education

Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: how to avoid the clash of civilisations

David Lewis-Williams, The Mind in the Cave

John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World

Andrew Denhom and Mark Garnett, Keith Joseph

Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate

Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: discovering our part through our genes

Stephen Jay Gould, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

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