Failing Liberty 101
Subtitle: how we are leaving young Americans unprepared for citizenship in a free society
By: William Damon
Series: Hoover Institution Press publication -- no. 611
Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780817913649; 9780817913663
Subjects: Social values; Youth; Civics
Description: The most serious danger that the United States now faces, says William Damon, is that our country's future may end up in the hands of a citizenry incapable of sustaining the liberty that has been America's most precious legacy. In Failing Liberty 101, he argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens--to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems--the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good--and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth, virtue, and the future of liberty in American society; title: The virtues gap in education today; title: Abandoning the American tradition; title: The American dream denied.