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The meaning of a liberal education

Chapter 18: Announcing THE NEW SCIENCE SERIES
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The author contends that liberal education is more than information or vocational training, presenting education as emancipation from herd opinion and the cultivation of self-mastery, suspended judgment, critical self-examination, and an appreciation of human worth. Chapters contrast such education with mere animal training, propaganda, and book learning, argue for the educational value of doubt and enduring intellectual dilemmas, and celebrate the free spirit. The work treats relations between education, work, and morals, examines classical and humanist perspectives alongside tensions between science and superstition, and concludes by considering the aims and challenges of adult education.

Announcing
THE NEW SCIENCE SERIES

One of the most significant developments in our life today is that as scientific knowledge almost daily advances, educated people are left more and more in ignorance of its achievements. Scientists for the most part write for each other and the general reader is forced to resort to popularizers of science for his information. It is apparently forgotten that many of the greatest scientists from Galileo and Copernicus to Darwin and Huxley wrote largely for the public they wished to reach with their ideas.

The publishers have this tradition in mind in offering The New Science Series which will present the latest scientific trends and discoveries from all parts of the world in a series of books written by leading scientists or those in close touch with their work. It is the aim of this series to help modern men and women to know more about themselves and their world, and to feel that they understand something of what it is all about.

Edited by C. K. Ogden

Vol. I. MYTH IN PRIMITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Bronislaw Malinowski, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Vol. II. SCIENCE AND POETRY

I. A. Richards, M.A.

Vol. III. FATALISM OR FREEDOM

C. Judson Herrick, Sc.D., Ph.D.

Other Volumes in Preparation

Each Volume $1.00

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