The school of freedom : a liberal education reader from Plato to the present day / edited and introduced by Anthony O'Hear and Marc Sidwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Hear, Anthony, editor.

Sidwell, Marc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Humanistic--Great Britain--History.

Education, Humanistic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : Imprint Academic, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ...

Contents:

section one. Origins

section two. The British tradition

section three. After tradition

section four. Liberal education redux.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 27, 2013).

ISBN:

1-84540-418-1

1-84540-419-X