Academic

Great Tradition, The : Classic readings on what it means to be an educated human being

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Outline: Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition - the Great Tradition - of education in the West is waiting to be heard. Since antiquity, the Great Tradition has defined education first and foremost as the hard work of rightly ordering the human soul, helping it to love what it ought to love, and helping it to know itself and its maker. In the classical and Christian traditions, the formation of the sould of wisdom, virtue, and eloquence took precedence over all else, including instrumental training aimed at the inculcation of "useful" knowledge. Edited by historian the author, this anthology reconstructs a centuries-long conversation about the goals, conditions, and ultimate value of true education. Spanning more than two millenia, from the ancient Greeks to contemporary writers, it includes substantial excerpts from more than eighty seminal writings on education. Represented here are the wisdom and insight of the West's greatest figures, including Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Basil the Great, Augustine, Hugh of St. Victor, Bonaventure, Thomas Aquinas, Marthin Luther, John Calvin, John Milton, Edmund Burke, John Henry Newman, Simone Veil, C. S. Lewis, Dorothy Sayers, and Eric Voegelin. In an unbroken chain of giving and receiving, this book embraced the accumulated wisdom of the past and understood education as the initiation of students into a body of truth. This unique collection is designed to help parents, students, and teachers reconnect with this noble legacy, to articulate a coherent defense of the classical liberal arts tradition, and to do battle with that tradition's enemies.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

370.9 G143g

Penerbit

Delaware, USA : ISI Books., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

669

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-935191-56-8

Klasifikasi

370.9

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

Fourth Edition

Subjek

Education -- History

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