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Reforming education : the opening of the American mind
- Title
- Reforming education : the opening of the American mind / Mortimer J. Adler ; edited by Geraldine Van Doren.
- Author
- Adler, Mortimer J. (Mortimer Jerome), 1902-2001
- Publication
- New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1988.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | LA212 .A37 1988 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Van Doren, Geraldine.
- Description
- xxxiii, 362 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 351-352.
- Contents
- Part I. Education in America -- problems and principles -- Thisprewar generation (1940) -- The Chicago School (1941) -- Liberalism and liberal education (1939) -- Are there absolute and universal principles on which education should be founded? (1941) -- Tradition and progress in education (1939) -- Education and the pursuit of happiness (1976) -- Part II. Liberal education and schooling -- Labor, leisure, and liberal education (1951) -- Liberal education -- theory and practice (1945) -- The schooling of a people (1957-58; 1976) -- Liberal schooling in the twentieth century (1962) -- What is basic about English? (1941) -- Part III. Teaching and learning -- Teaching, learning, and their counterfeits (1976; 1987) -- The order of learning (1941) -- Two essays on docility (1940) -- Education beyond schooling -- the task of a lifetime (1942; 1952) -- What is an idea? (1958) -- Invitation to the pain of learning (1941) -- Part IV. Thinking about moral values -- Virtue and happiness (1970) -- A sound moral philosophy (1982) -- Ethics : fourth century B.C. and twentieth century A.D. (1988) -- Part V. Paideia : its inception and development -- Reconstituting the schools (1983) -- The three columns revisited (1987) -- A Declaration of principles by the Paideia Associates (1988) -- Reforming education -- no quick fix (1988).
- ISBN
- 0025005510
- 9780025005518
- LCCN
- 88008339
- OCLC
- ocm18442397
- 18442397
- SCSB-1721216
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library