Ebook: The School of Freedom: a Liberal Education Reader from Plato to the Present Day

Cover; Contents; Front matter; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgements; Body matter; Foreword: The Strange Death of Liberal Education; Introduction; Section One: Origins; I. Greece: Paideia; II. Rome: Humanitas; III. Christianity: Logos; Section Two: The British Tradition; IV: Against the Darkness; V. Twelfth-Century Revival; VI. New Learning: The Renaissance Humanists; VII. Persistence Through Enlightenment, Romanticism & Industrialisation; VIII. Restating the Ideal: Diligence and Devotion; IX. A Challenge from Science.;Liberal education is not a theory. It is the tradition by which Western civilisation has preserved and enriched its inheritance for two and a half thousand years. Yet liberal education is a term that has fallen from use in Britain, its traditional meaning now freely confused with its opposite. This book is intended to correct that misapprehension, through the presentation of original source material from the high points in the liberal education tradition with particular focus on the British ...