Norms and Nobility

Author: David V. Hicks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538195364
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 217

Book Description
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.

Norms & Nobility

Author: David V. Hicks
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9781538195352
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Norms & Nobility

Author: David V. Hicks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780761814672
Category : Education, Humanistic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Beauty for Truth's Sake

Author: Stratford Caldecott
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493410601
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 183

Book Description
Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, the author explains that unity is present within diversity. Now repackaged with a new foreword by Ken Myers, this book will continue to benefit parents, homeschoolers, lifelong learners, Christian students, and readers interested in the history of ideas.

Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary

Author: M. Rady
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0333985346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
The absence in medieval Hungary of fief-holding and vassalage has often been cited by historians as evidence of Hungary's early 'deviation' from European norms. This new book argues that medieval Hungary was, nevertheless, familiar with many institutions characteristic of noble society in Europe. Contents include the origins of the Hungarian nobility and baronage, lordship and clientage, the role of the noble kindred, conditional landholding, the organization of the frontier, the administration of the counties, and the establishment of representative institutions.

Wisdom and Eloquence

Author: Robert Littlejohn
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433517086
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
To succeed in the world today, students need an education that equips them to recognize current trends, to be creative and flexible to respond to changing circumstances, to demonstrate sound judgment to work for society's good, and to gain the ability to communicate persuasively.

Consider This

Author: Karen Glass (Missionary)
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781500808037
Category : Child rearing
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Classical education is an education of the heart and conscience as much as it is an education of the mind. This book explores the classical emphasis on formation of character and links Charlotte Masons ideas to the thinkers of the past. This is not a 'how to' book about education, but a 'why to' book that will bring clarity to many of the ideas you already know about teaching and learning"--Back cover.

Classical Education

Author: Gene Edward Veith (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
"Whether you are a parent anxious about your child's education, a family considering homeschooling, or a young person contemplating a career as a teacher, this book will help you think through what a true education involves. After a brief survey of where education in America has gone wrong, including a glance at controversial efforts like Common Core and Race to the Top, the authors describe the alternative to today's failed fashions in learning: a classical education."--Back cover

The Lost Tools of Learning

Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Publisher: Fig
ISBN: 1610612353
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description

Mortal Subjects

Author: Christina Howells
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745652751
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected connections, Christina Howells draws together the work of prominent thinkers from the fields of phenomenology and existentialism, religious thought, psychoanalysis, and deconstruction, focussing in particular on the relations between body and soul, love and death, desire and passion. From Aristotle through to contemporary analytic philosophy and neuroscience the relationship between mind and body (psyche and soma, consciousness and brain) has been persistently recalcitrant to analysis, and emotion (or passion) is the locus where the explanatory gap is most keenly identified. This problematic forms the broad backdrop to the work’s primary focus on contemporary French philosophy and its attempts to understand the intimate relationship between subjectivity and mortality, in the light not only of the ‘death’ of the classical subject but also of the very real frailty of the subject as it lives on, finite, desiring, embodied, open to alterity and always incomplete. Ultimately Howells identifies this vulnerability and finitude as the paradoxical strength of the mortal subject and as what permits its transcendence. Subtle, beautifully written, and cogently argued, this book will be invaluable for students and scholars interested in contemporary theories of subjectivity, as well as for readers intrigued by the perennial connections between love and death.