Education at the crossroads

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EDUCATION
JACQUES MARITAIN
Jacques Maritain, onc of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time, explores in this book the American system of education. Dissenting from the view that has been widely held in various disguised forms that education is in somé way like animal training, M. Maritain believes that it must be based on the Christian idea of man as being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than servile." In his view education is concerned with "making a man"—a man with "deep-rooted inde-pendence with regard to common opinion." These pages are devoted then to discovering how that can come about, to showing what has been wrong with a system of education that has been more concerned with techniques than with goals, with "aptitudes" rather than with the whole humán being. A liberal and wise observer of these matters, M. Maritain is at the same time a vigorous prophet of an education for a higher level of democracy than we have had.
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EDUCATION
JACQUES MARITAIN
Jacques Maritain, onc of the most eminent Catholic philosophers of our time, explores in this book the American system of education. Dissenting from the view that has been widely held in various disguised forms that education is in somé way like animal training, M. Maritain believes that it must be based on the Christian idea of man as being "more a whole than a part, and more independent than servile." In his view education is concerned with "making a man"—a man with "deep-rooted inde-pendence with regard to common opinion." These pages are devoted then to discovering how that can come about, to showing what has been wrong with a system of education that has been more concerned with techniques than with goals, with "aptitudes" rather than with the whole humán being. A liberal and wise observer of these matters, M. Maritain is at the same time a vigorous prophet of an education for a higher level of democracy than we have had.
"A document of first-rate importance. . . . Sheer informed common sense. In the reviewer's opinion, this small volume should be com-pulsory reading for all, whatever their religious beliefs or disbeliefs, who want light on the nature and place of education in our democratic society."—The Yale Review
"I cannot imagine anybody who is really concerned about our educa-tional debacle, or even about our cultural debacle, not deriving wisdom and courage from this book."—Virginia Quarterly Review Vissza