The School Of Freedom A Liberal Education Reader From Plato To The Present Day [Paperback]

Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British experience. Section 1: Origins (c. 450 BC to c. 450 AD) Section 2: The British Tradition (c. 750 to 1950) Section 3: After Tradition (1950 onward) Section 4: Liberal Education Redux (America).

A much needed anthology which makes available the key educational texts. A copy should be sent to Mr Balls, his ministerial team, and each and every official in the DCSF.

Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British experience. Section 1: Origins (c. 450 BC to c. 450 AD) Section 2: The British Tradition (c. 750 to 1950) Section 3: After Tradition (1950 onward) Section 4: Liberal Education Redux (America).

In a 24 page Introduction the editors offer a through examination of the history of liberal education as 'education for freedom' that must be realised in daily educational practice rather than remaining confined to pedagogical theory.

This reader serves to expose the cultural narrowness of the pragmatic and political forces that so seriously threaten the ideal of a liberal education today. Such a wealth of testimonyl3Ð