Analyzing Montaigne's triptych painting, ''Of the Education of Children,'' reveals a series of ever-morphing, Dorian Gray-like canvases that depict metaphor mutations through which Montaigne defined education by distinguishing between schooling a child into a learned man and educating him into an able, active, and gentle person. Montaigne used metaphor and metaphor clusters to image key points in his educational philosophy, advanced his argument by intertwining, transmuting, and inverting metaphors, and thereby drew and vividly painted his philosophy of how to educate a person from cradle to coffin. Because the etymology and pronunciation of ''essay'' (from the French essai) support Montaigne's imaging and exploiting of this genre's creative potential, Virginia Worley begins by considering the term's etymology before positioning her analysis of Montaigne's work within metaphor research. She then examines the metaphors Montaigne used to paint the triptych word painting that embodies his philosophy of education: the meaning and value of educating in and for the art of living well.
Seeking to root Maxine Greene's pedagogy in Jean-Paul Sartre's and Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theories, Shaireen Rasheed examines Sartre's concepts of freedom and moral life and Merleau-Ponty's concept of social imagination. Although one might conclude from Rasheed's examination that in Greene's work, all roads lead to freedom, I suggest that examining Greene's own definitions, relating them to each other, and illuminating their meanings and values within her pedagogy reveal that all roads lead to a public place "in between." Necessary to her concepts of freedom, moral life, and individual and social imaginations, this place is where one comes together with others to achieve freedom, live a moral life, see the possible for self and world, and achieve what should be. Since Greene's pedagogical aims include teaching students to do these things, this place "in between" also becomes necessary to her pedagogy, and itself becomes her ideal place of education.
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