Sublime

En vérité, tel a bien été l’idéal de l’éducation libérale en Occident depuis des siècles, même si de nombreuses écoles ont tardé à le réaliser. Les enseignants se permettaient de gaver les élèves de données tout en les encourageant à « penser par eux-mêmes ». Par peur de l’autoritarisme, les écoles libérales avaient les grands récits en horreur. Po

Dans des conditions devenues favorables on pourrait expérimenter des « écoles démocratiques », des établissements où les élèves sont libres d’aller en cours et apprennent dès l’âge de six ans la compréhension mutuelle et l’art de traiter les conflits.

In Adler’s time, however, there was no psychologist more concerned with education. To Adler, education was not simply a core task—it was also the greatest hope.

Property is very prominent in Locke's political philosophy, and is, according to him, the chief reason for the institution of civil government: “The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property; to which in the state of nature there are many things wanting.”

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics. If I wished a boy to know something about the arts and sciences, for instance, I would not pursue the common course, which is merely to send him into the neighborhood of some professor, where anythi

The political philosopher Danielle Allen makes a powerful argument that the fundamental purpose of the American public education system is to ensure an informed citizenry.