# Education and the good life

Author: Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70302

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Education+and+the+good+life+Russell&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There must be in the world many parents who, like the present author, have young children whom they are anxious to educate as well as possible, but reluctant to expose to the evils of most existing educational institutions. The difficulties of such parents are not soluble by any effort on the part of isolated individuals. It is of course possible to bring up children at home by means of governesses and tutors, but this plan deprives them of the companionship which their nature craves, and without which some essential elements of education must be lacking. Moreover it is extremely bad for a boy or girl to be made to feel “odd” and different from other boys and girls: this feeling, when tra...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/23/index.md)
- [PART III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/education-and-the-good-life-70302/chapters/4/index.md)