Paradoxes of Education in a Republic

by Eva Brann

Book Overview

Written over a decade ago, Eva T. H. Brann's enlightening analysis of American education places the recent debate on the means and ends of a liberal education in new perspective. She goes beyond discussion of courses and particular books to claim that philosophical inquiry is far more important to the improvement of education than curricular and administrative schemes. She provides both a broad philosophical and historical analysis of education in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226071359
• ISBN13: 9780226071350
• Release Date: April 1979
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dense, but wonderfully highbrow. Critiques all major schools of education without showing any parti

Brann gives a dense but wide ranging examination of the theories of education found in various cultures. Although primarily western in scope, Brann throws in everything but the kitchen sink to reach her consummately careful and studuied conclusions. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.