Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964Univ of Wisconsin Press, 11/03/2009 - 440 páginas 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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... society is this: that there is no common basis for men's reasoning; that at the bottom of all reasoning there is irrationality; that every man starts from his own private designs; that, after all, reasoning is rationalizing, and the old ...
... society is this: that there is no common basis for men's reasoning; that at the bottom of all reasoning there is irrationality; that every man starts from his own private designs; that, after all, reasoning is rationalizing, and the old ...
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... society . He was convinced that each succeeding generation had to re - create democracy practically from scratch , to summon it , as it were , from the very “ womb of the earth . ” And yet , like Socrates , he recognized that the only ...
... society . He was convinced that each succeeding generation had to re - create democracy practically from scratch , to summon it , as it were , from the very “ womb of the earth . ” And yet , like Socrates , he recognized that the only ...
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... society of the 1880s and 1890s, Meiklejohn saw in idealism a way to reconcile competing claims of personal freedom and public order, individual liberty and institutional authority that dominated his historical milieu. As a bulwark ...
... society of the 1880s and 1890s, Meiklejohn saw in idealism a way to reconcile competing claims of personal freedom and public order, individual liberty and institutional authority that dominated his historical milieu. As a bulwark ...
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... society is a body consisting of many members , the real in- terests of which are identical . ” He learned that “ true workmen should be fellow - workers . ” He discovered that “ a principle of justice , not of self- ishness , must ...
... society is a body consisting of many members , the real in- terests of which are identical . ” He learned that “ true workmen should be fellow - workers . ” He discovered that “ a principle of justice , not of self- ishness , must ...
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... Society of Equitable Pioneers symbolized not only a social and economic aid society but also a moral, political, and intellectual commu- nity. As its charter stated, the cooperative constituted a “self-supporting home-colony of united ...
... Society of Equitable Pioneers symbolized not only a social and economic aid society but also a moral, political, and intellectual commu- nity. As its charter stated, the cooperative constituted a “self-supporting home-colony of united ...
Índice
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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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