Norms and Nobility
Norms and Nobility

Author: David V. Hicks

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1538195364

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A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.

Wisdom and Eloquence
Wisdom and Eloquence

Author: Robert Littlejohn

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2006-04-12

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1433517086

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To succeed in the world today, students need an education that equips them to recognize current trends, to be creative and flexible to respond to changing circumstances, to demonstrate sound judgment to work for society's good, and to gain the ability to communicate persuasively.

Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England
Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England

Author: Nicholas Hudson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-10-30

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0521831253

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Samuel Johnson, one of the most renowned authors of the eighteenth century, became virtually a symbol of English national identity in the century following his death in 1784. In Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England Nicholas Hudson argues that Johnson not only came to personify English cultural identity but did much to shape it. Hudson examines his contribution to the creation of the modern English identity, approaching Johnson's writing and conversation from scarcely explored directions of cultural criticism - class politics, feminism, party politics, the public sphere, nationalism, and imperialism. Hudson charts the career of an author who rose from obscurity to fame during precisely the period that England became the dominant ideological force in the Western world. In exploring the relations between Johnson's career and the development of England's modern national identity, Hudson develops new and provocative arguments concerning both Johnson's literary achievement and the nature of English Nationhood.