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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... explaining the educational origins of democracy—the ways in which education created democracy through the authoritative processes of teaching. Here, of course, was the basic dilemma that Socrates tried to solve by first highlighting and ...
... explaining the educational origins of democracy—the ways in which education created democracy through the authoritative processes of teaching. Here, of course, was the basic dilemma that Socrates tried to solve by first highlighting and ...
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... explained in his History of Brown University, “made it natural that more and more youth should seek a college education.” Fur- thermore, “the multiplication and improvement of high schools put the means for preparing for college within ...
... explained in his History of Brown University, “made it natural that more and more youth should seek a college education.” Fur- thermore, “the multiplication and improvement of high schools put the means for preparing for college within ...
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... explained in his annual report to the trustees , was “ to ground the student in the nature and validity of human knowledge and to demonstrate the ultimate and substantial character of mind and the fu- tility of any and every form of ...
... explained in his annual report to the trustees , was “ to ground the student in the nature and validity of human knowledge and to demonstrate the ultimate and substantial character of mind and the fu- tility of any and every form of ...
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... explained, noting the link between prac- tical reason and moral conviction. “It was the real culmination of the work [The Critique of Practical Reason].”53 In Meiklejohn's view, Kant's greatest contribution to modern philosophy was his ...
... explained, noting the link between prac- tical reason and moral conviction. “It was the real culmination of the work [The Critique of Practical Reason].”53 In Meiklejohn's view, Kant's greatest contribution to modern philosophy was his ...
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... explained, “the question nat- urally arises, how is it that all these fellows who claim to know the truth cannot agree among themselves; does it not seem as if there were no truth to know, or at least as if it lay beyond the power of ...
... explained, “the question nat- urally arises, how is it that all these fellows who claim to know the truth cannot agree among themselves; does it not seem as if there were no truth to know, or at least as if it lay beyond the power of ...
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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