This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life, including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators, women's studies specialists, social workers, and historians.
This description of the Hull House program is taken from Jane Addams, "Hull-House: A Social Settlement," appendix in Hull-House Maps and Papers (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1895), pp. 207-230. Later descriptions may be found in Jane ...
"Three characters with different skills and outlooks explore the idea of education, exploring what true education is, challenging common conceptions and putting forward rich definitions of education and what it ideally would be"--
A Philosophical Dialogue Nicholas J. Pappas. Professor: Its lightning fast use of logic. Director: Islighting fast logic beautiful? Professor: It can be. But I like to savor slow logic. Do you find logic beautiful?
Manual School for Girls Cornell University, a model school in this age of men; Cooper Institute, out of which the student comes with gratitude in his soul and a chisel under his arm; Felix Adler's' well-rounded school where, ...
This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life, including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators, women's studies specialists, social workers, and historians.
Clearly argued but provocative, On Education draws on recent examples from Britain and North America as well as famous thinkers on education such as Aristotle and John Locke.
"One of the greatest problems of education," Kant observes, "is how to unite submission to the necessary restraint with the child's capability of exercising his free will.
On Education is a fascinating essay by Arthur Schopenhauer.