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050 00 $aLB875.M332$bN45 2001
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100 1 $aNelson, Adam R.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00110240
245 10 $aEducation and democracy :$bthe meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 /$cAdam R. Nelson.
260 $aMadison :$bUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axix, 416 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 337-390) and index.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aBrilliant 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.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aHe 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.".
520 8 $a"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.
600 10 $aMeiklejohn, Alexander,$d1872-1964.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78092889
650 0 $aEducators$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102671
650 0 $aEducation, Humanistic$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
852 00 $boff,glx$hLB875.M332$iN45 2001