Voice of Liberal Learning

Name: Voice of Liberal Learning
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ISBN: 9780865973244

ISBN-10: 0865973245

ISBN-13: 9780865973244

Edition: 2001

Authors: Michael OAKESHOTT, Timothy Fuller

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To those weary and wary of the cacophony about what's wrong with education in America and what ought to be done about it, Oakeshott's voice beckons. As usual, his approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical -- in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself and, concomitantly, the means (as distinct from the method) by which the life of learning is discovered, cultivated, and pursued. As Oakeshott has written, "This, then, is what we are concerned with: adventures in human self-understanding. Not the bare protestation that a human being is a self-conscious, reflective intelligence and that he…

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List price: $14.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 233
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Foreword to the Liberty Fund Edition
Introduction: A Philosophical Understanding of Education
Acknowledgments
A Place of Learning	p. 1
Learning and Teaching	p. 35
Education: The Engagement and Its Frustration	p. 62
The Idea of a University	p. 105
The Universities	p. 118
Political Education	p. 159
Index	p. 189
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