While reading the Noddings’ section on Cosmopolitanism, I couldn’t help but notice some flaws in advocating for it as an educational platform. To begin, Noddings attempts to give the movement legitimacy by invoking Stoic philosophy, but then acknowledges that it “had little influence on the actual politics of city-states and nations” (p.212). One also has to wonder if any Stoic philosophers would have changed their tune if they found themselves living among vastly different peoples instead of within the predominatelty Indo-European circle surrounding the Mediterranean. As well, a key…