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.
Table of Contents:
chapter 1 Virtue is the Fruit of Learning
chapter 2 The Word of Truth
chapter 3 Teaching the Father of the Man
chapter 4 The Tyrannizing Image
chapter 5 Saving the Appearances
chapter 6 On the Necessity of Dogma
chapter 7 The Ennobling of the Masses
chapter 8 The Promises of Christian Paideia
chapter 9 A Curriculum Proposal (What Might Have Been)
chapter 10 Some Questions and Assumptions (What Ought to Be)
chapter 11 Three Schools in One Academy
chapter 12 The School Within the School
chapter 13 Epilogue
chapter 14 Bibliography
chapter 15 Index
David V. Hicks is President of the Darlington School in Rome, Ga.
University Press of America
Pub Date: January 01, 1999
182 pages
0.42" H x 9.0" L x 6.0" W
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