Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964University of Wisconsin Press, 2001 M04 17 - 436 pages This definitive biography of the charismatic Alexander Meiklejohn tracks his turbulent career as an educational innovator at Brown University, Amherst College, and Wisconsin’s “Experimental College” in the early twentieth century and his later work as a civil libertarian in the Joe McCarthy era. The central question Meiklejohn asked throughout his life’s work remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free? |
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... democracy , the answer would be easy : they are the same thing . Alexander Meiklejohn " Education and Democracy , " 1923 One of the deepest and most active convictions just now in our . society is this : that there is no common basis ...
... democracy , the answer would be easy : they are the same thing . Alexander Meiklejohn " Education and Democracy , " 1923 One of the deepest and most active convictions just now in our . society is this : that there is no common basis ...
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... democracy as the most virtuous form of gov- ernment humanity could possibly devise . He did not , however , believe that democracy was inborn in human nature , nor did he think , as Dewey often suggested , that democracy was somehow ...
... democracy as the most virtuous form of gov- ernment humanity could possibly devise . He did not , however , believe that democracy was inborn in human nature , nor did he think , as Dewey often suggested , that democracy was somehow ...
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... democracy was to believe in basic human rational- ity . Harkening back to the ethical arguments of Education Between Two Worlds , and , even further , back to the moral and epistemological idealism of Kant , Meiklejohn insisted on the ...
... democracy was to believe in basic human rational- ity . Harkening back to the ethical arguments of Education Between Two Worlds , and , even further , back to the moral and epistemological idealism of Kant , Meiklejohn insisted on the ...
Contents
PROVIDENCE 18721911 | 20 |
College Education and the Moral Ideal 19001911 | 33 |
AMHERST 19121924 | 67 |
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