Habits of Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Cover
Title page
Imprint
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Herbert London
Introduction
Part 1 Our Habits
	1. Higher Education Today
		How Bad Is Our System of Education?
		Democracy, Freedom, and Education
		The Critics of Education
		The Roots of Our Crisis in Education
	2. Our Philosophical Roots
		An Open Mind
		The Modern and the Postmodern American University
		The Question of the Curriculum
	3. An Alternative Philosophy of Education
		Habits of Mind as Used, and Their History
		Our Inherited Habits of Mind
		Plato and Our Greek Heritage
		The Education of Habits of Mind
	4. An Alternative University
		Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation
		The English Schools, Luis Vives
		The Universities of the Counter-Reformation
		The Shape of an Alternative University
	5. The Experiment
		Requirements for Teachers and Students
		The Plan of This Book
Part 2 Our Models
	6. The Medieval Version of Aristotle
		Scholastic Logic, Antonio T. de Nicolas
		Scipio’s Dream, from On the Republic, Cicero
		The Myth of Er, from the Republic, Plato
	7. Modernity with Galileo, Descartes, Newton
		Modern Logic
		Some Logical Terms, Definitions, Axioms, and Formulae
		The Sciences Now Have Masks on Them, Colin M. Turbayne
	8. The Narratives: Locke, Rousseau, Marquis de Sade
		Some Thoughts Concerning Education, John Locke
		Emile, Jean Jacques Rousseau
		Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man, The Marquis de Sade
	9. The Critics: Vico, Voltaire.
		Candide Voltaire
	10. The Contemporary University: John Dewey, José Ortega y Gasset
		Marx, Dewey, and Maritain: The Role of Religion in Society, Jude P. Dougherty
		Experience and Education, John Dewey
		The Revolt of the Masses, José Ortega y Gasset
		Mission of the University
Part 3 Our Resources
	11. Socrates, Plato, the Poets
		Translating Plato: Some Reflections on Rhetoric, John Bremer
		The Republic, Plato
		Myths: Chaos, Daedalus and Icarus, The Golden Verses of the Pythagoreans, trans. Antonio T. de Nicolas
Summary-Philosophies of Education
Bibliography