Norms and Nobility A Treatise on Education

by Hicks, David V.

• ISBN13: 9780761814672
• ISBN10: 0761814671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-30
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.

Table of Contents

Preface to the 1990 Edition	v
Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue	1	(16)
PART I: THE IDEA OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
Virtue is the Fruit of Learning	17	(11)
The Word is Truth	28	(8)
Teaching the Father of the Man	36	(7)
The Tyrannizing Image	43	(9)
Saving the Appearances	52	(14)
On the Necessity of Dogma	66	(12)
The Ennobling of the Masses	78	(12)
The Promise of Christian Paideia	90	(17)
PART II: THE PRACTICE OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
A Curriculum Proposal (What Might Have Been)	107	(15)
Some Questions and Assumptions (What Ought to Be)	122	(9)
Three Schools in One Academy	131	(16)
The School Within the School	147	(8)
Epilogue	155	(4)
Bibliography	159	(5)
Index	164	(4)
About the Author	168