The School of Freedom : A Liberal Education Reader From Plato to the Present Day

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Body matter; Foreword: The Strange Death of Liberal Education; Introduction; Section One: Origins; I. Greece: Paideia; II. Rome: Humanitas; III. Christianity: Logos; Section Two: The British Tradition; IV: Against the Darkness; V. Twelfth-Century Revival; VI. New Learning: The Renaissance Humanists; VII. Persistence Through Enlightenment, Romanticism & Industrialisation; VIII. Restating the Ideal: Diligence and Devotion; IX. A Challenge from Science.;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 ... 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) Liberal education,western civilisation,education,scholars,teachers,pedgagogy,Plato,Aristotle,Cicero,Seneca,Quintilian,Christianity,St Jerome,St Augustine,Alfred the Great,St Thomas Aquinas,Salisbury,learning,humanists,humanism,Enlightenment,romanticism,industrialisation,hume,Adam Smith,Coleridge,Thomas Carlyle,John Stuart Mill,John Ruskin,Tawney,Oakeshott Cover Contents Front matter Title page Copyright page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgements Body matter Foreword: The Strange Death of Liberal Education Introduction Section One: Origins I. Greece: Paideia II. Rome: Humanitas III. Christianity: Logos Section Two: The British Tradition IV: Against the Darkness V. Twelfth-Century Revival VI. New Learning: The Renaissance Humanists VII. Persistence Through Enlightenment, Romanticism & Industrialisation VIII. Restating the Ideal: Diligence and Devotion IX. A Challenge from Science. X. The Twentieth Century: Liberal Education for AllXI. Worth Fighting For: Restatement in and after World War II Section Three: After Tradition XII. Losing Battles XIII. Returning to First Principles Section Four: Liberal Education Redux XIV. Revival in America From World War I to Christian Classical Schooling Back matter Also available.