Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education

by Jerry Kirkpatrick and Jerry Kirkpatrick

Book Overview

Synthesizing ideas from such disparate thinkers as educator Maria Montessori, philosophers John Dewey and Ayn Rand, and Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism presents a philosophy of education-the theory of concentrated attention and independent judgment-that requires laissez-faire capitalism for its full realization. It is not an argument, except indirectly, for the separation of education and state nor is it a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0978780337
• ISBN13: 9780978780333
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Kirkpatrick Books
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"