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Author Pangle, Lorraine Smith, author.

Title The learning of liberty the educational ideas of the American founders / Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle
Published Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas, 1995
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Sept. 1995

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 350 pages)
Series American political thought
American political thought.
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
Summary 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 educational theories and institutions have lost sight of the need to perpetuate a core of moral and civic knowledge that is essential for any citizen's education, and indeed for any individual's happiness. Mining the Founders' rich reflections on education, the Pangles suggest, can help us recover a clearer sense of perspective and purpose.With a commanding knowledge of the history of political philosophy, the authors illustrate how the Founders both drew upon and transformed the ideas of earlier philosophers of education such as Plato, Xenophon, Milton, Bacon, and Locke. They trace the emergence of a new American ideal of public education that puts civic instruction at its core to sustain a high quality of leadership and public discourse while producing resourceful, selfreliant members of a uniquely fluid society. The Pangles also explore the wisdom and the weaknesses inherent in Jefferson's attempt to create a comprehensive system of schooling that would educate parents and children and offer unprecedented freedom of choice to university students. An original closing section examines the Founders' ideas for bringing all aspects of society to bear on education. It also shows how Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin presented their own lives as models for the education of others and analyzes the subtle, provocative moral philosophy implicit in the selfdepiction of each.The Learning of Liberty is historical and scholarly yet relentlessly practical, seeking from the Founders useful insights into the human soul and the character of good education. Even if the Founders do not provide us with readymade solutions to many of our problems, the Pangles suggest, a study of their writings can give us a more realistic perspective, by teaching that our bewilderment is in some measure an outgrowth of unresolved tensions embedded in the Founders' own conceptions of republicanism, religion, education, and human nature
Analysis Education United States Philosophy History 18th century
Education and state United States Philosophy History 18th century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index
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Subject Education and state -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
Education -- United States -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century
EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects
Education -- Philosophy
Education and state -- Philosophy
Bildungstheorie
Geschichte
Erziehungsphilosophie
Staat
GrĂ¼ndung
Freiheit
Erziehungsziel
Bildungswesen
Founding fathers
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pangle, Thomas L., author.
Project Muse. distributor.
ISBN 9780700631155
0700631151