Paradoxes of Education in a Republic

By Eva Brann

Book Overview

Written over a decade ago, Eva T. H. Brann's enlightening analysis of American education places the recent debate on the means and ends of a liberal education in new perspective. She goes beyond... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226071367
• ISBN13: 9780226071367
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Dense, but wonderfully highbrow. Critiques all major schools of education without showing any parti

Brann gives a dense but wide ranging examination of the theories of education found in various cultures. Although primarily western in scope, Brann throws in everything but the kitchen sink to reach her consummately careful and studuied conclusions. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.