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The School of Freedom - A liberal education reader from Plato to the present day (Paperback)
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The School of Freedom - A liberal education reader from Plato to the present day (Paperback)
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Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which
Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for
two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that
has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely
confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that
misapprehension, through the presentation of original source
material from the high points in the liberal education tradition
with particular focus on the British experience. It includes 4
sections: Section 1 - Origins (c. 450 BC to c. 450 AD); Section 2 -
The British Tradition (c. 750 to 1950); Section 3 - After Tradition
(1950 onward); and, Section 4 - Liberal Education Redux (America).
'There is more common sense about education in this single book
than in the whole unending stream of Green Papers, White Papers,
Acts and Initiatives that have poured out of the Department of
Education, under its various titles, in the last twenty years' -
Eric Anderson. 'A much needed anthology which makes available the
key educational texts. A copy should be sent to Mr Balls, his
ministerial team, and each and every official in the DCSF' - Chris
Woodhead. 'This reader serves to expose the cultural narrowness of
the pragmatic and political forces that so seriously threaten the
ideal of a liberal education today. Such a wealth of testimony,
from the ancient world to the present day, must surely help to turn
the tide' - Gordon Graham. 'O'Hear and Sidwell have accumulated a
treasure chest of the riches of Western civilisation. For all those
who still know what a liberal education is, this reader is a
godsend. Not only the scholars who care about the preservation of
that civilisation, and the teachers responsible for its
transmission to a new generation, but any citizen of the open
society should become a student of "The School of Freedom"' -
Daniel Johnson, Editor of "Standpoint".
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