An edition of Education and democracy (2001)

Education and democracy

the meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964

Education and democracy
Adam R. Nelson, Adam R. Nelson
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An edition of Education and democracy (2001)

Education and democracy

the meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964

"This is the definitive biography of Alexander Meiklejohn, one of the most important and controversial educators and civil libertarians of the twentieth century. A charismatic teacher and philosopher with extraordinarily high expectations for democratic self-government in the United States, Meiklejohn was both beloved and reviled during his long life.

Brilliant and dedicated, he could also be stubborn and arrogant, and his passion for his own ideals led to frequent clashes with prominent and powerful critics.".

"The son of reform-minded, working-class immigrants from Scotland, Meiklejohn rejected the spiritually agnostic and politically instrumentalist philosophies of his Progressive Era contemporaries, many of whom, he argued, simply took democracy for granted. As dean of Brown University at the outset of the twentieth century, he lamented the disintegration of the old classical curriculum and questioned the rising influence of amoral science in modern higher education.

He served as president of Amherst College during the culturally turbulent years of World War I, as director of the famous Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin during the late 1920s and early 1930s, and as a delegate to UNESCO after World War II. An outspoken defender of the First Amendment during the McCarthy era, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.".

"Alexander Meiklejohn was a self-proclaimed idealist living in an increasingly pragmatic age, and his central question remains essential today: How can education teach citizens to be free?""--BOOK JACKET.

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Pages
416

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May 16, 2001, University of Wisconsin Press
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2001, University of Wisconsin Press
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Education and democracy: the meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964
2001, University of Wisconsin Press
in English
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Education and democracy: the meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964
2001, University of Wisconsin Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-402) and index.

Published in
Madison, Wis
Genre
Biography.

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Dewey Decimal Class
370/.92, B
Library of Congress
LB875.M332 N45 2001

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Pagination
xix, 416 p. :
Number of pages
416

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Open Library
OL17599695M
ISBN 10
029917140X
LCCN
00011979
OCLC/WorldCat
45207784
Library Thing
3505504
Goodreads
414537

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