| Description |
xix, 373 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
My pedagogic -- The primary-education fetich -- The people and the schools -- The place of manual training in the elementary course of study -- Democracy in education -- Religion and our schools -- Our educational ideal in wartime -- Universal service as education -- The schools and social preparedness -- American education and culture -- Nationalizing education -- Experiment in education -- Learning to earn -- Public education on trial -- Education and social direction -- Education as religion -- Education as engineering -- Education as politics -- Mediocrity and individuality -- Individuality, equality and superiority -- Culture and professionalism in education -- The prospects of the liberal college -- The liberal college and its enemies -- The direction of education -- General principles of educational articulation -- How much freedom in new schools? -- The duties and responsiblities of the teaching profession -- Monastery, bargain counter or laboratory in education -- Political interference in higher education and research -- Education and our present social economic problems -- The economic situation: A challange to education -- Why have progressive schools? -- The supreme intellectual obligation -- The need for a philosophy of education -- The teacher and his word -- The teacher and the public -- Youth in a confused world -- Toward a national system of education -- Liberty and social control -- The social significance of academic freedom -- Class struggle and the democratic way -- Rationality in education -- Democracy and educational administration -- Education and social change -- Democracy and education in the world of today |
| Subject |
Education.
|
|
Education. |
|
Education -- United States.
|
|
United States. |
| Added Author |
Ratner, Joseph, 1901-
|
| ISBN |
837125502 |
|
