Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2009 M03 11 - 440 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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... American Civil War, when a sharp drop in cotton imports caused British mills to buckle, thousands of workers had emigrated overseas. Dozens of enterprising Scots had started new mills abroad or bought factories from American families ...
... American Civil War, when a sharp drop in cotton imports caused British mills to buckle, thousands of workers had emigrated overseas. Dozens of enterprising Scots had started new mills abroad or bought factories from American families ...
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... American dollars and waited for their baggage to pass inspection.13 The next day , the whole family set out for Appanoag , Rhode Island , where they stayed for four years before finally settling fifteen miles farther north in Pawtucket ...
... American dollars and waited for their baggage to pass inspection.13 The next day , the whole family set out for Appanoag , Rhode Island , where they stayed for four years before finally settling fifteen miles farther north in Pawtucket ...
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... Americans failed to appreciate their foreign - born neighbors.29 “ In reading American newspa- pers , in listening to American orators , and , in fact , in considering Ameri- can opinion , ” he observed , “ it is strange to notice how ...
... Americans failed to appreciate their foreign - born neighbors.29 “ In reading American newspa- pers , in listening to American orators , and , in fact , in considering Ameri- can opinion , ” he observed , “ it is strange to notice how ...
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... American industrial prosperity and techno- logical discovery in the 1880s, Brown, along with countless other research universities at the time, experienced a sort of scientific renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century. President ...
... American industrial prosperity and techno- logical discovery in the 1880s, Brown, along with countless other research universities at the time, experienced a sort of scientific renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century. President ...
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... American phi- losophy . Even if the full significance of Kant's philosophy did not become apparent to him for many years , its initial impact came when he was an undergraduate and embarked on a thorough examination of idealism as a way ...
... American phi- losophy . Even if the full significance of Kant's philosophy did not become apparent to him for many years , its initial impact came when he was an undergraduate and embarked on a thorough examination of idealism as a way ...
Contents
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To Whom Are We Responsible? 19201924 | 97 |
A New College with a New Idea 19251928 | 133 |
A Most Lamentable Comedy 19291932 | 165 |
A Fresh Start 19331940 | 199 |
A Reply to John Dewey 19411947 | 233 |
What Does the First Amendment Mean? 19481954 | 263 |
The Faith of a Free Man 19551964 | 296 |
Education and the Democratic IdealThe Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn | 329 |
Notes | 337 |
Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading | 391 |
Index | 403 |
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