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Character education is an umbrella term loosely used to describe the teaching of children and adults in a manner that will help them develop variously as moral, civic, good, mannered, behaved, non-bullying, healthy, critical, successful, traditional, compliant or socially acceptable beings.
Classical Christian education is a learning approach popularized in the late 20th century that emphasizes biblical teachings and incorporates a teaching model from the classical education movement known as the Trivium, consisting of three parts: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. It is taught internationally in hundreds of schools with about 40,000 ...
For much of the 20th century, the dominant historiography, as exemplified by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868–1941) at Stanford, emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions. Cubberley argued that the ...
Horace Mann was born in Franklin, Massachusetts. [4] His father was a farmer without much money. Mann was the great-grandson of Samuel Man. [5]From age ten to age twenty, he had no more than six weeks' schooling during any year, [6] but he made use of the Franklin Public Library, the first public library in America.
The first part is for children under age 16. Book two of Ourselves is written for students over 16. [13] Formation of Character, [14] published the following year, in 1905, was developed from a revision of earlier volumes. Mason explained in the preface to volume 5 (Formation of Character) that "In editing Home Education and Parents and ...
Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People. 1990. Carwardine, Richard J. Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America. Yale University Press, 1993. Carwardine, Richard J. "The Second Great Awakening in the Urban Centers: An Examination of Methodism and the 'New Measures '", Journal of American History 59 (1972): 327–340.
The lonely crowd: a study of the changing American character. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08865-6. (reprint) Geary, Daniel. "Children of The Lonely Crowd: David Riesman, the Young Radicals, and the Splitting of Liberalism in the 1960s," Modern Intellectual History, Nov., 2013, Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 603–633
Miller has written five books, edited five books, and published over 125 articles, introductions and commentaries. [ 1 ] From 2010 to 2015 he was the director of the Character Project, funded by $5.6 million in grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation .