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The medieval in our schools: how our schools owe so much less to the nineteenth century factory

The medieval in our schools: how our schools owe so much less to the nineteenth century factory

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An EPUB version of this article can be downloaded here Our educational problems are wrongly attributed to the 19th Century industrial factory. The introduction of universal, compulsory state schooling was more directly political – much more about engineering populations into compliant national identity. The template was the medieval school – a factory system indifferent to […]

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An EPUB version of this article can be downloaded here Our educational problems are wrongly attributed to the 19th Century industrial factory. The introduction of universal, compulsory state schooling was more directly political – much more about engineering populations into compliant national identity. The template was the medieval school – a factory system indifferent to

A liberal education – Part II: why it needs replacing

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A liberal education – exit stage right. Part II: why it needs to be replaced A liberal education has progressively been destroyed. The previous article explains why it won’t do any longer – but also the unacceptable price we pay for not having an education that fulfills several of the needs that a liberal education

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A liberal education – exit stage right. Part II: why it needs to be replaced A liberal education has progressively been destroyed. The previous article explains why it won’t do any longer – but also the unacceptable price we pay for not having an education that fulfills several of the needs that a liberal education

The meaning of education

A liberal education – exit stage right. Part I: the attack

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The liberal education tradition has been largely destroyed by neo-conservative assumptions. Identified with a range of academic disciplines, and pursued for its own sake, it has suffered from association with the life-style of the European aristocracy, the former leisured elite. Despite this, it had important functions in enabling a challenging of inherited beliefs and assumptions,

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The liberal education tradition has been largely destroyed by neo-conservative assumptions. Identified with a range of academic disciplines, and pursued for its own sake, it has suffered from association with the life-style of the European aristocracy, the former leisured elite. Despite this, it had important functions in enabling a challenging of inherited beliefs and assumptions,