The Voice of Liberal Learning

by Michael Oakeshott

Book Overview

By 1989, when Michael Oakeshott's Voice of Liberal Learning was first published by Yale University Press, books that held a negative view of education in the United States had garnered a remarkable amount of attention.

Oakeshott's approach to the subject is subtle, comprehensive, and radical--in the sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root, Oakeshott believed, is the very nature of learning itself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865973245
• ISBN13: 9780865973244
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5