Locke's Education for Liberty presents an analysis of the crucial but often underestimated place of education and the family within Lockean liberalism. Nathan Tarcov shows that Locke's neglected work Some Thoughts Concerning Education compares with Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile as a treatise on education embodying a comprehensive vision of moral and social life. Locke believed that the family can be the agency, not the enemy, of individual liberty and equality. Tarcov's superb reevaluation reveals to the modern reader a breadth and unity heretofore unrecognized in Locke's thought.
In this superb history, which includes portaits of many of the leading figures of the American intellectual conservative movement, Edwards recounts the rich fruits of their unremitting labors.
"This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.
History of how the educational system has changed. From the beginning of this country till now. Arguments for liberal education and limited government.
Excerpt from Education for Liberty, Vol. 3 This might be described as a book of educational themes with variations. The variations are not, as the musical kind often appear to be, meant only to embroider and complicate the themes. They are rather intended, as musical variations ought at least to be intended, to develop the meanings that are latent in the themes. I have a reason, or at least an excuse, for adopting this form. The book is about the unity of knowledge, and about methods for establishing that unity; and if I treated the methods 'systematically,' in the sense of elaborating them singly, each for itself, I should not be able to dwell upon the unity which, between them, they are there to maintain. In school practice, we have to weave the different principles of method together; and I want to present school method as it can be woven together in school practice, under the hands of teachers. And in doing this I want to carry with me as many as possible of those who, although keen to help in the educational renascence, are as yet unfamiliar with the main principles of educational advance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
