Education Between Two Worlds

by Meiklejohn,Alexander

• ISBN13: 9780202308135
• ISBN10: 0202308138
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. Stringfellow Barr, writing for the New Republic, said that this is A wise and courageous book. I do not know how anybody concerned with education can ignore it.”

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE ALDINETRANS ACTION EDITION	ix
FOREWORD	xxix
PREFACE	xxxiii
BOOK I. PROTESTANT-CAPITALIST EDUCATION
1. FROM CHURCH TO STATE	3	(10)
2. JOHN AMOS COMENIUS	13	(13)
3. JOHN LOCKE	26	(10)
4. MATTHEW ARNOLD	36	(20)
5. THE FORCES OF DISINTEGRATION	56	(15)
BOOK II. THE PROBLEM OF RECONSTRUCTION
6. JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU	71	(15)
7. THE FIRST OF THE MODERNS	86	(10)
8. CUSTOM AND INTELLIGENCE-TWO AUTHORITIES	96	(13)
9. THE TEACHER HAS TWO MASTERS	109
BOOK III. THE PRAGMATIC EPISODE-A STUDY OF JOHN DEWEY
10. GENERAL FEATURES OF PRAGMATISM	123	(14)
11. THE WAR CRIES OF PRAGMATISM	137	(13)
12. KNOWLEDGE AND INTELLIGENCE	150	(19)
13. THE THEORY OF THE STATE	169	(13)
14. THE THEORY OF DEMOCRACY	182	(17)
BOOK IV. THE SOCIAL CONTRACT AS BASIS OF EDUCATION
15. THE DOCTRINE OF BROTHERHOOD	199	(11)
16. THE CUE FROM ROUSSEAU	210	(15)
17. REASONABLENESS IS REASONABLE	225	(11)
18. THE QUANTITY OF REASONABLENESS	236	(14)
19. THE QUALITY OF REASONABLENESS	250	(12)
20. THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL	262	(15)
21. THE GENERAL THEORY OF EDUCATION	277	(16)
INDEX	293