WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
The meaning of a liberal education cover

The meaning of a liberal education

Chapter 19: Transcriber’s note
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

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.

Transcriber’s note

Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Spelling was standardized except for quotes. Hyphenation was standardized where appropriate.

The following changes were made:

Page 37: “Pavlow. A hungry dog” “Pavlov. A hungry dog”
Page 54: “information that anyone” “information than anyone”
Page 76: “in the early nineteeth” “in the early nineteenth”
Page 88: “Nietsche said that” “Nietzsche said that”
Page 123: “it not the social problem” “is not the social problem”
Page 130: “Max Sterner’s “Ego”” “Max Stirner’s “Ego””
Page 137: “it hestitated to carry” “it hesitated to carry”
Page 141: “organized soicalist locals” “organized socialist locals”
Page 142: “sort of convenant among” “sort of covenant among”
Page 176: “its value it not” “its value is not”
Page 176: “a philosophy it true” “a philosophy is true”
Page 198: “creation of Plato’s genuis” “creation of Plato’s genius”
Page 199: “to aquiescence to authority” “to acquiescence to authority”
Page 224: “Michaelangelo and Raphael” “Michelangelo and Raphael”
Page 224: “Melanchthon and Œcolampadus” “Melanchthon and Œcolampadius”
Page 239: “matched by his magnaminity” “matched by his magnanimity”
Page 253: “fire of Promethus” “fire of Prometheus”
Page 256: “believe there an be” “believe there can be”
Page 304: “system-makers and sytems” “system-makers and systems”
Page 304: “destiny then their friends” “destiny than their friends”
Page 306: “a covenient way” “a convenient way”