"A document of first-rate importance. . . . Sheer informed common sense. . . . This volume should be compulsory reading for all, whatever their religious beliefs or disbeliefs, who want light on the nature and place of education in our democratic society." --The Yale Review
One of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time explores the American system of education. Jacques Maritain believes that education must be based on the Christian idea of the individual being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than servile." In his view education is concerned with "making a man"--a person with "deep-rooted independence with regard to common opinion." This book is devoted to discovering how that can come about.
Author(s): Jacques Maritain
Edition: Seventeenth printing, September 1964
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year: 1943
Language: English
Pages: 120
City: New Haven & London
Front cover
Title page
Preface
Contents
I. The Aims of Education
1. The Nature of Man and Education
2. Concerning the Aims of Education
3. The Paradoxes of Education
II. The Dynamics of Education
1. The Dynamic Factors
2. The Fundamental Dispositions to be Fostered
3. The Fundamental Norms of Education
III. The Humanities and Liberal Education
1. The Rudiments
2. The Humanities
3. The University
IV. The Trials of Present-Day Education
1. Liberal Education and the New Humanism We Hope for
2. Some Special Tasks Imposed upon Education With Regard to the World of Tomorrow
3. The Educational Problems Raised by the Present World Crisis of Civilization
Index of Proper Names
Back cover
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