Great issues in education.
Published: 1956
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: Education.; Education -- Philosophy.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The White House Conference on Education, selections; title: Crisis in education, selections / Bernard Iddings Bell; title: Education / Bertrand Russell; title: Politics, selections / Aristotle; title: Public school philosophy in Illinois [selections]; title: Why do students bog down on the first "R"? / John Hersey; title: Are our schools flunking? [selections] / Ernest E. Tucker and Norman Glubok; title: The great didactic, selections / John Amos Comenius; title: v. 2. Experience and education, selections ; The school and society, selections / John Dewey; title: Adult education / Mortimer J. Adler; title: The free man's education, selections / Richard Livingstone; title: What knowledge is of most worth, selections / Herbert Spencer; title: Education at the crossroads, selections / Jacques Maritain; title: The republic, book VII, selections / Plato; title: v. 3. The vestige of God / Milton Mayer; title: The fight over America's fourth "R" / William Lee Miller; title: The aims of education ; The rhythm of education / Alfred North Whitehead; title: The education of Henry Adams, selections / Henry Adams; title: The people's school, selections / Ruth Mary Weeks; title: Lycurgus, selections / Plutarch; title: Education for death, selections / Gregor Ziemer; title: The ideal teacher / George Herbert Palmer.