Liberal Education and the Public Interest

by James Freedman and James O. Freedman

In 1996 James Freedman published Idealism and Liberal Education, which discussed the ideals that shaped his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. In this new collection of essays, he convincingly explores his firm belief that a liberal education is the "surest instrument yet devised for developing those civilizing qualities of mind and character that enable men and women to lead satisfying lives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877458251
• ISBN13: 9780877458258
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Fine Advocacy by Leading Liberal Academic

Exquisitely written, this book is superbly articulate advocacy in defense of the fundamental components of traditional liberal education. This advocacy of 'tradition' is all the more special coming from one of academe's leading true Liberals. As President of Dartmouth Universty, Freedman took on the hate-speech of Dartmouth's right-wing journal and made it stick. He held a similar position at the sometimes underrated University of Iowa, and was ombudsman and also law dean at the Universtiy of Pennsylvania. He truly knows whereof he speaks, and our policy makers would do well to heed his exhortations.