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I do not believe the practices of our current public education reflect the aims of "Philosophy on education" from Plato to Dewey because of the Context Statement and questions Rorty ask in The Ruling History of Education. What are the directions and limits of public education in a liberal...
IF a survey be taken of the various schemes for a league of nations, including the scheme actually embodied in the existing Covenant, three assumptions will be found uniformly present. By most propagandists they are treated as self-evident. The first assumption is that the necessary instruments ...
The Influence of the Greeks on American Democracy"Tyranny is the rule of one man to the advantage of the ruler, oligarchy to the advantage of the rich, democracy to the advantage of the poor." -AristotleDemocracy: a form of government that makes political decisions directly exercised by the whole ...