This pressbook is one tool for our work in Out of the Cave, a course offered by Dr. Jody Valentine at Pomona College.  In this course, we will study inspiring thinkers in the history of pedagogical theory in order to become philosophers of education ourselves.  We will work to develop our own answers to the key questions of the course:  What are the aims of an education?  How do we go about achieving those aims?  In particular, (to speak directly to our place in a liberal arts college), what is the value of studying the humanities, the arts, and sciences, both historically and today?