Humanistic education and Western civilization
Subtitle: essays for Robert M. Hutchins
By: [by] Mortimer J. Adler [and others]. Edited with an introd. by Arthur A. Cohen
Series: Essay index reprint series; Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780836981506
Subjects: Humanistic Education
Notes: Reprint of the 1964 ed.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rober Maynard Hutchins; the educator as moralist, by A.A. Cohen.; title: Democratic values and Western civilization: International democracy, by Ph. C. Jessup. The future of democracy; a swan song, by M.J. Adler. The society of the dialogue, by W.O. Douglas. Toward a political theory of education, by B. de Jouvenel. The universalization of Western civilization, by E.M. Borgese. The conjugation of a Greek verb; persuasion and the life of politics, by S. Buchanan.; title: The past and future of humanistic education: The dilemmas of humanistic education in the United States, by O.M. Wilson. Humanistic education in India, by H. Kabir. Principles and particulars in liberal education, by F. Ch. Ward. "A connected view of things," by R.G. Tugwell. The liberating arts and the humanizing arts in education, by R.P. McKeon. Innovation and reaction in higher education, by D. Riesman. To know and to do, by M. Mayer. On the future of humanistic education, by J.C. Murray.