The meaning of a liberal education
By: by Everett Dean Martin ...
Series: [The People's institute. "Lectures-in-print" series
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, inc.
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Education
Other titles: A liberal education.
First sentence: CONTENTS
	
	
	
PREFACE 	vii
	
I. INTRODUCTION 	1
	
II. LIBERAL EDUCATION VERSUS ANIMAL
TRAINING 	23
	
III. LIBERAL EDUCATION VERSUS PROPA-
GANDA 	45
	
IV. LIBERAL EDUCATION VERSUS BOOK
LEARNING 	66
	
V. THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF DOUBT 	84
	
VI. A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE DILEMMAS HE
KEEPS 	107
	
VII. THE FREE SPIRIT 	127
	
VIII. THE APPRECIATION OF HUMAN WORTH 	146
	
IX. EDUCATION AND WORK 	160
	
X. EDUCATION AND MORALS 	180
	
XI. THE CLASSICAL TRADITION: PLATO AND
ARISTOTLE 	197
	
XII. HUMANISM: ERASMUS AND MONTAIGNE 	220
	
XIII. SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION: HUXLEY 	252
	
XIV. THE FRUIT OF THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE 	286
	
XV. POSTSCRIPT--ADULT EDUCATION IN
AMERICA 	308
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