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Author:

Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.

Title:

Reforming education : the opening of the American mind / Mortimer J. Adler ; edited by Geraldine Van Doren.

Publisher:

Collier Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

c1988

Description:

xxxiii, 362 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Education--United States--History.
Education--Philosophy.
Reform--Education--Reform
Éducation--Philosophie.
Éducation--États-Unis--Histoire.

Other Authors:

Van Doren, Geraldine.

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 351-352. Includes index.

Contents:

Part V. Paideia : its inception and development -- Reforming education - no quick fix (1988) The Chicago School (1941) -- Liberalism and liberal education (1939) -- Are there absolute and universal principles on which education should be founded? (1941) -- Tradition and progress in education (1939) -- Education and the pursuit of happiness (1976) - Part II. Liberal education and schooling -- Labor, leisure, and liberal education (1951) -- Liberal education - theory and practice (1945) -- The schooling of a people (1957-58; 1976) -- Liberal schooling in the twentieth century (1962) -- What is basic about English? (1941) -- Part III. Teaching and learning -- Teaching, learning, and their counterfeits (1976; 1987) -- The order of learning (1941) -- Two essays on docility (1940) -- Education beyond schooling - the task of a lifetime (1942; 1952) -- What is an idea? (1958) -- Invitation to the pain of learning (1941) -- Part IV. Thinking about moral values -- Virtue and happiness (1970) -- A sound moral philosophy (1982) -- Ethics : fourth century B.C. and twentieth century A.D. (1988) -- Part V. Paideia : its inception and development -- Reconstituting the schools (1983) -- The three columns revisited (1987) -- A Declaration of principles by the Paideia Associates (1988) -- Reforming education - no quick fix (1988)

ISBN:

9780025005518
0025005510

LCCN:

88008339

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)