Norms & nobility : a treatise on education

Book 1999

A reissue of a classic text, "Norms and Nobility" is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks arg...

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ISBN:

9780761814672
0761814671

Description:

xiii, 167 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Norms and nobility

Notes:

Originally published: Savage, Md. : Rowman and Littlefield, c1991
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163) and index

Contents:

Virtue is the fruit of learning
The word is truth
Teaching the father of the man
The tyrannizing image
Saving the appearances
On the necessity of dogma
The ennobling of the masses
The promise of Christian paideia
A curriculum proposal (what might have been)
Some questions and assumptions (what outght to be)
Three schools in one academy
The schoo within the school

LCCN:

99033456

Control Number:

3249233

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