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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... ethical core of liberalism , the moral center of social reform , the very heart of the democratic project as a revo- lutionary human goal . Coming of age in the increasingly diverse , secular , and chaotic industrial society of the ...
... ethical core of liberalism , the moral center of social reform , the very heart of the democratic project as a revo- lutionary human goal . Coming of age in the increasingly diverse , secular , and chaotic industrial society of the ...
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... ethical under- standing, which could develop only through the guidance of a liberal ed- ucation. The question was, how? How could educators teach people to be free? Meiklejohn's answer to this question was both complex and contro ...
... ethical under- standing, which could develop only through the guidance of a liberal ed- ucation. The question was, how? How could educators teach people to be free? Meiklejohn's answer to this question was both complex and contro ...
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... ethical importance to economic equality. They commended the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris, who sought to preserve a pro- ducerist aesthetic in the arts and crafts, and they enthusiastically debated the heroic folklore of ...
... ethical importance to economic equality. They commended the ideas of John Ruskin and William Morris, who sought to preserve a pro- ducerist aesthetic in the arts and crafts, and they enthusiastically debated the heroic folklore of ...
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... ethical understanding in an increas- ingly scientific world . Under Andrews's guidance , Meiklejohn and his fel- low students encountered the great minds of Western philosophy , includ- ing Plato , Aristotle , Anselm , Aquinas , Hobbes ...
... ethical understanding in an increas- ingly scientific world . Under Andrews's guidance , Meiklejohn and his fel- low students encountered the great minds of Western philosophy , includ- ing Plato , Aristotle , Anselm , Aquinas , Hobbes ...
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... ethical values . If con- sciousness and reality occupied fundamentally different realms , then how could human beings really know God ? How could individual thinkers 99 66 share a common understanding of truth? How could different ...
... ethical values . If con- sciousness and reality occupied fundamentally different realms , then how could human beings really know God ? How could individual thinkers 99 66 share a common understanding of truth? How could different ...
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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