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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... Moral Ideal , " 1900-1911 AMHERST , 1912–1924 3. " The College as Critic , " 1912-1919 4. " To Whom Are We Responsible ? ” 1920–1924 MADISON , 1925–1932 ix xi xvii 3 33 550 61 97 5. " A New College with a New Idea , " 1925-1928 6. " A ...
... Moral Ideal , " 1900-1911 AMHERST , 1912–1924 3. " The College as Critic , " 1912-1919 4. " To Whom Are We Responsible ? ” 1920–1924 MADISON , 1925–1932 ix xi xvii 3 33 550 61 97 5. " A New College with a New Idea , " 1925-1928 6. " A ...
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... moral and intellectual leadership provided by teachers like himself. Nowhere was this paradoxical role of educators illustrated more clearly than it was in Plato's Republic, a text Meiklejohn assigned as the culminating work for ...
... moral and intellectual leadership provided by teachers like himself. Nowhere was this paradoxical role of educators illustrated more clearly than it was in Plato's Republic, a text Meiklejohn assigned as the culminating work for ...
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... 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 1880s and 1890s, Meiklejohn xiii ...
... 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 1880s and 1890s, Meiklejohn xiii ...
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... moral authority of reason as an organizing principle for all human relationships. Without rational- ity as an authoritative ideal, Meiklejohn simply could not conceive of lib- eral education as a creative force for the development of ...
... moral authority of reason as an organizing principle for all human relationships. Without rational- ity as an authoritative ideal, Meiklejohn simply could not conceive of lib- eral education as a creative force for the development of ...
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... moral miracle performed by our cooperatives of Rochdale [ is ] that they . . . had the good sense to differ without disagreeing , to dissent from each other without separating , to hate at times , and yet always to hold together . ” 6 ...
... moral miracle performed by our cooperatives of Rochdale [ is ] that they . . . had the good sense to differ without disagreeing , to dissent from each other without separating , to hate at times , and yet always to hold together . ” 6 ...
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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