The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders

by Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle

Book Overview

American schools are in a state of crisis.

At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test scores, festers a serious uncertainty as to what the focus and goals of education should be. We are increasingly haunted by the suspicion that our educational theories and institutions have lost sight of the need to perpetuate a core of moral and civic knowledge that is essential for any citizen's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700607463
• ISBN13: 9780700607464
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"