What is the main conflict in Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Education: A Biographical Introduction by Gerald L. Gutek?

There isn't conflict in a fictional sense. Gutek's biographical introduction clearly presents many facts of history as the backdrop against which he describes individual educators and brings them to life. His writing is so well done and enjoyable that a reader is hardly aware this is a college text. This book is such a pleasure to read that its 400 pages make a real "page-turner." Gutek begins with the ancient Confucius and Greco-Romans Plato, Aristotle and Quintilian.