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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... ethical behavior without belying the fact of individ- ual human diversity . But how ? How could institutions of democratic education teach diverse individ- uals the essential principles of an ethical life ? " Is it not hopeless , " Meik ...
... ethical behavior without belying the fact of individ- ual human diversity . But how ? How could institutions of democratic education teach diverse individ- uals the essential principles of an ethical life ? " Is it not hopeless , " Meik ...
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... ethical - conviction . Harkening back to his study of Kant , Meiklejohn located the essence of a transcendental human community in the institu- tions of liberal democracy . “ A democracy is not a multifarious collection of human bodies ...
... ethical - conviction . Harkening back to his study of Kant , Meiklejohn located the essence of a transcendental human community in the institu- tions of liberal democracy . “ A democracy is not a multifarious collection of human bodies ...
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... ethical ideal of all humankind and the organization through gov- ernment of collective services . According to Meiklejohn , ethical ideals were formless as well as meaningless outside of the context of govern- mental institutions . Only ...
... ethical ideal of all humankind and the organization through gov- ernment of collective services . According to Meiklejohn , ethical ideals were formless as well as meaningless outside of the context of govern- mental institutions . Only ...
Contents
PROVIDENCE 18721911 | 20 |
College Education and the Moral Ideal 19001911 | 33 |
AMHERST 19121924 | 67 |
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