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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... off ignorant of their education, lest they begin to doubt the integrity, originality, or au- thenticity of their commitment to virtuous self-government. Only if the process of learning is hidden from the youth will they xii PREFACE.
... off ignorant of their education, lest they begin to doubt the integrity, originality, or au- thenticity of their commitment to virtuous self-government. Only if the process of learning is hidden from the youth will they xii PREFACE.
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... learning is hidden from the youth will they have the confidence to teach the ways of democracy to their own children and , thus , from gen- eration to generation , to defend that ideal against attacks . Like Socrates , Meiklejohn cared ...
... learning is hidden from the youth will they have the confidence to teach the ways of democracy to their own children and , thus , from gen- eration to generation , to defend that ideal against attacks . Like Socrates , Meiklejohn cared ...
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... learning environment.18 As dean at Brown, Meiklejohn supported standardized exams and endorsed the need for intellectual ho- mogeneity in the student body. “The one advantage of the teacher over every other speaker in the world,” he ...
... learning environment.18 As dean at Brown, Meiklejohn supported standardized exams and endorsed the need for intellectual ho- mogeneity in the student body. “The one advantage of the teacher over every other speaker in the world,” he ...
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... learning . ” To most listeners , Meiklejohn's first sentences seemed simple and straightforward , but behind their apparent simplicity lay a complex and far more controversial meaning . By casting the liberal college as an essentially ...
... learning . ” To most listeners , Meiklejohn's first sentences seemed simple and straightforward , but behind their apparent simplicity lay a complex and far more controversial meaning . By casting the liberal college as an essentially ...
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... learning . “ [ I ] t seems to me , ” Meiklejohn proclaimed at the peak of his address , “ that our willingness to allow students to wander about in the college cur- riculum is one of the most characteristic expressions of a certain ...
... learning . “ [ I ] t seems to me , ” Meiklejohn proclaimed at the peak of his address , “ that our willingness to allow students to wander about in the college cur- riculum is one of the most characteristic expressions of a certain ...
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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