The Learning of Liberty

by Pangle, Lorraine Smith; Pangle, Thomas L.

• ISBN13: 9780700607464
• ISBN10: 0700607463
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

"This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Legacy	p. 9
The Problematic Heritage of European Education	p. 11
Classical Republican Educational Ideals	p. 32
The Lockean Revolution in Educational Theory	p. 54
Schools for the Emerging Republic	p. 73
Benjamin Franklin and the Idea of a Distinctively American Academy	p. 75
The American Insistence on Public Schooling as Essential to Democracy	p. 91
Thomas Jefferson on the Education of Citizens and Leaders	p. 106
The Unfulfilled Visions for a System of Public Schooling	p. 125
Higher Education	p. 146
Institutions beyond the School	p. 185
Religion	p. 187
Economic and Political Life as Sources of Moral Education	p. 202
Education through the Free Exchange of Ideas	p. 214
Education through Emulation	p. 229
George Washington and the Principle of Honor	p. 231
Thomas Jefferson and the Natural Basis of Moral Education	p. 250
Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Virtue	p. 265
Conclusion	p. 285
Notes	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 339
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