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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... experienced a sort of scientific renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century. President Andrews's establishment of ... experience had a more lasting impact on his later educational philos- ophy than the university's science-heavy ...
... experienced a sort of scientific renaissance at the end of the nineteenth century. President Andrews's establishment of ... experience had a more lasting impact on his later educational philos- ophy than the university's science-heavy ...
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... experience as opposed to divine inspiration. Rooted in the assumption that understanding comes from direct observations and sense perceptions, empiricism searched for truth through the use of scien- tific experiments and the discovery ...
... experience as opposed to divine inspiration. Rooted in the assumption that understanding comes from direct observations and sense perceptions, empiricism searched for truth through the use of scien- tific experiments and the discovery ...
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... experience, Kant argued that the meaning of experience derives from transcendental—and thus perfectly unified— reason. According to Kant, reason creates meaning out of experience. As Meiklejohn put it in one undergraduate essay, “Hume ...
... experience, Kant argued that the meaning of experience derives from transcendental—and thus perfectly unified— reason. According to Kant, reason creates meaning out of experience. As Meiklejohn put it in one undergraduate essay, “Hume ...
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... experience , replaced God as the First Cause of human knowledge . As Meiklejohn put it in another class essay , “ [ B ] eyond a question , Kant demonstrated the synthetic unity of apper- ception ; he has given to our knowledge a ...
... experience , replaced God as the First Cause of human knowledge . As Meiklejohn put it in another class essay , “ [ B ] eyond a question , Kant demonstrated the synthetic unity of apper- ception ; he has given to our knowledge a ...
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... experience . He would stand before us — slender , smiling , his hands in his pockets or tug- ging at his lapels — and he would deal with us according to the pattern which Plato of Athens describes . Like Socrates , Dr. Meiklejohn was an ...
... experience . He would stand before us — slender , smiling , his hands in his pockets or tug- ging at his lapels — and he would deal with us according to the pattern which Plato of Athens describes . Like Socrates , Dr. Meiklejohn was an ...
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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