1st Edition

Education Between Two Worlds

By Alexander Meiklejohn Copyright 2006
338 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

337 Pages
by Routledge

Written in the midst of World War II, this book makes a strong argument for the crucial importance of education as the solution to the dilemmas with which our Anglo-Saxon culture was nurtured, with particular emphasis on the work of John Dewey and Jean-Jacques Rousseau."The schools with which this argument is concerned are those of the Anglo-Saxon democracies of the last three centuries. In the... Read more
book I Protestantcapitalist Education; 1: From Church to State; 2: John Amos Comenius; 3: John Locke; 4: Matthew Arnold; 5: The Forces of Disintegration; The Problem of Reconstruction; 6: Jean Jacques Rousseau; 7: The First of the Moderns; 8: Custom and Intelligence-Two Authorities; 9: The Teacher has Two Masters; book III The Pragmatic Episode—A Study of John Dewey; 10: General Features of Pragmatism; 11: The War Cries of Pragmatism; 12: Knowledge and Intelligence; 13: The Theory of the State; 14: The Theory of Democracy; book IV The Social Contract as Basis of Education; 15: The Doctrine of Brotherhood; 16: The Cue From Rousseau; 17: Reasonableness is Reasonable; 18: The Quantity of Reasonableness; 19: The Quality of Reasonableness; 20: The State and the Individual; 21: The General Theory of Education

Biography

Alexander Meiklejohn