Education at the Crossroads

by Maritain, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9780300001631
• ISBN10: 0300001630
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1943-06-01
• Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

Summary

One of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time explores the American system of education. He believes that it must be based on the Christian idea of man being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than servile." In his view education is concerned with "making a man"-a man with "deep-rooted independence with regard to common opinion." This book is devoted to discovering how that can come about.

Table of Contents

Preface	v
I. The Aims of Education	1	(28)
The Nature of Man and Education	1	(9)
The Education of Man	1	(1)
The First Misconception: a Disregard of Ends	2	(2)
The Second Misconception: False Ideas Concerning the End	4	(1)
The Scientific and the Philosophical-Religious Idea of Man	4	(2)
The Christian Idea of Man	6	(1)
Human Personality	7	(2)
Personality and Individuality	9	(1)
Concerning the Aims of Education	10	(12)
The Conquest of Internal Freedom	10	(2)
The Third Misconception: Pragmatism	12	(2)
The Social Potentialities of the Person	14	(1)
The Fourth Misconception: Sociologism	15	(3)
The Fifth Misconception: Intellectualism	18	(2)
The Sixth Misconception: Voluntarism	20	(2)
The Paradoxes of Education	22	(7)
The Seventh Misconception: Everything Can Be Learned	22	(2)
The Educational and Extra-educational Spheres	24	(1)
The Educational System with Regard to the Formation of the Will and the Dignity of the Intellect	25	(4)
II. The Dynamics of Education	29	(29)
The Dynamic Factors	29	(7)
The Pupil's Mind and the Art of the Teacher	29	(2)
Education by the Rod and Progressive Education	31	(2)
The True and the False Freeing of Personality	33	(3)
The Fundamental Dispositions To Be Fostered	36	(3)
With Regard to Truth and Justice	36	(1)
With Regard to Existence	37	(1)
With Regard to Work	38	(1)
With Regard to the Others	38	(1)
The Fundamental Norms of Education	39	(19)
The First Rule	39	(1)
The Second Rule	39	(3)
The Freeing of the Intuitive Power	42	(3)
The Third Rule	45	(2)
Spiritual Unity and Wisdom	47	(2)
The Fourth Rule	49	(2)
Knowledge and Training	51	(4)
The Inner Structure of the Curriculum	55	(3)
III. The Humanities and Liberal Education	58	(30)
The Rudiments	58	(3)
The Spheres of Knowledge	58	(2)
The Child	60	(1)
The Humanities	61	(14)
The Adolescent	61	(3)
The Universal Character of Liberal Education	64	(2)
The Curriculum	66	(5)
Philosophy and Theology	71	(4)
The University	75	(13)
The Architecture of an Ideal University	75	(4)
The Consummation of Liberal Education	79	(4)
The Institutes of Advanced Research	83	(1)
The Schools in Spiritual Life	84	(2)
Our Responsibility toward Youth	86	(2)
IV. The Trials of Present-Day Education	88	(31)
Liberal Education and the New Humanism We Hope For	88	(3)
An Integral Education for an Integral Humanism	88	(1)
Human Leisure and Liberal Education	89	(2)
Some Special Tasks Imposed upon Education with Regard to the World of Tomorrow	91	(12)
The Normal Task of Education and Its Superadded Burdens	91	(1)
The Educational System and the State	92	(1)
Moral Teaching	93	(4)
The Needs of the Political Commonwealth and Education	97	(6)
The Educational Problems Raised by the Present World Crisis of Civilization	103	(16)
How to Remedy the Mental Perversion Brought about by ``Education for Death,''	103	(1)
Preventive or Protective Measures	104	(3)
Constructive Work	107	(2)
About Europe	109	(4)
The Renewed Inspiration of Our Own Education	113	(6)
Index	119