| Preface to the Revised Edition | |
| Introduction: Back to Basics | 3 |
| 1 | States and Education | 19 |
| 2 | The Purposes of Primary Education | 48 |
| 3 | Dimensions of Democratic Participation | 71 |
| 4 | The Limits of Democratic Authority | 95 |
| 5 | Distributing Primary Schooling | 127 |
| 6 | The Purposes of Higher Education | 172 |
| 7 | Distributing Higher Education | 194 |
| 8 | Extramural Education | 232 |
| 9 | Educating Adults | 256 |
| Conclusion: The Primacy of Political Education | 282 |
| Epilogue: Challenges of Civic Minimalism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism | 292 |
| Works Cited | 317 |
| Index | 339 |