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Education At The Crossroads
Jacques Maritain, one 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 some way like animal training. 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 independence 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 human being. A liberal and wise observer of these matters, 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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