| Edition |
Second edition / with retrospectives by Clarence J. Karier and Foster McMurray. |
| Description |
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The vanishing sense of purpose in education -- The ideal of disciplined intelligence -- Is a good education undemocratic? -- Progressive education and regressive education -- The school and the practical needs of youth -- "Life-adjustment" training : a parody of education -- Interlocking directorate of professional educationists -- First steps in educational reform -- Reorganization of teacher training -- Re-establishment of standards through examination -- The structure of liberal education -- Freedom of teaching -- The study of our own civilization -- Proposals for a permanent scientific and scholarly commission on secondary education -- Author's supplementary note to the second edition -- Retrospective one / Clarence J. Karier -- Retrospective two / Foster McMurray. |
| Note |
"Publications of Arthur Bestor on educational questions": p. 289-292. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 209-226. |
| Subject |
Bestor, Arthur Eugene, 1908-1994.
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Education -- United States -- Aims and objectives.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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| Added Author |
Karier, Clarence J.
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McMurray, Foster.
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| ISBN |
0252012267 |
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