`Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education’ looks at fifty of the most significant contributors of modern times to the debate on education. Among those included are: Pierre Bourdieu Elliot Eisner Hans J. Eysenck Michel Focault Henry Giroux Jurgen Habermas Susan Isaacs A.S. Neill Herbert Read Simone Weill. Together with `Fifty Major Thinkers on Education’ this book provides a unique history of educational thinking. Each essay gives key biographical information, an outline of the individual’s principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence and a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.