The learning of liberty the educational ideas of the American founders /
American schools are in a state of crisis.At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals of education should be. We are increasingly haunted by the suspicion that our edu...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, KS :
University Press of Kansas,
1995.
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| Series: | American political thought.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The Legacy. 1. The Problematic Heritage of European Education. 2. Classical Republican Educational Ideals. 3. The Lockean Revolution in Educational Theory
- pt. 2. Schools for the Emerging Republic. 4. Benjamin Franklin and the Idea of a Distinctively American Academy. 5. The American Insistence on Public Schooling as Essential to Democracy. 6. Thomas Jefferson on the Education of Citizens and Leaders. 7. The Unfulfilled Visions for a System of Public Schooling. 8. Higher Education
- pt. 3. Institutions beyond the School. 9. Religion. 10. Economic and Political Life as Sources of Moral Education. 11. Education through the Free Exchange of Ideas
- pt. 4. Education through Emulation. 12. George Washington and the Principle of Honor. 13. Thomas Jefferson and the Natural Basis of Moral Education. 14. Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Virtue.
