enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Some Thoughts Concerning Education - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Thoughts_Concerning...

    Title page from the first edition of Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693) Some Thoughts Concerning Education is a 1693 treatise on the education of gentlemen written by the English philosopher John Locke. For over a century, it was the most important philosophical work on education in England. It was translated into almost all of the major written European languages during the ...

  3. The American Scholar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Scholar

    The scholar's education consists of three influences: I. Nature, as the most important influence on the mind; II. The Past, manifest in books; III. Action and its relation to experience; The last, unnumbered part of the text is devoted to Emerson's view on the "Duties" of the American Scholar who has become the "Man Thinking".

  4. The Constitution of Man - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_of_Man

    Combe prefaces his work by stating, "no author has hitherto attempted to point out, in a combined and systematic form, the relations between [the laws of nature] and the constitution of Man; which must, nevertheless, be done...The great object of the following Essay is to exhibit these relations, with a view to the improvement of education, and the regulation of individual conduct."

  5. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

    images.huffingtonpost.com/2012-10-31-FormarNot...

    Not only a matter of education Laura Agosta / Formar Foundation - September 2011 Executive summary In the past few decades, the education system in the US has undergone various reforms with the goal of achieving better quality for American students. Experts have tried measured the impact of these reforms and attempted to share some of their ...

  6. Chomsky–Foucault debate - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky–Foucault_debate

    As the moderator summarized the topic: "All learning concerning man, ranging from history to linguistics and psychology, are faced with the question [of] whether in the last instance, we are the product of all kinds of external factors, or if, in spite of our differences, we have something we could call a common human nature by which we can call each other human beings."

  7. The Philosophy of Freedom - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Freedom

    Steiner had wanted to write a philosophy of freedom since at least 1880. [12] The appearance of The Philosophy of Freedom in 1894 [13] was preceded by his publications on Goethe, focusing on epistemology and the philosophy of science, particularly Goethe the Scientist (1883) [14] and The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World Conception (1886). [15]

  8. Emile, or On Education - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education

    Emile, or On Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. [1]

  9. Perfectionism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectionism_(philosophy)

    Perfectionism, as a moral theory, has a long history and has been addressed by influential philosophers. Aristotle stated his conception of the good life ().He taught that politics and political structures should promote the good life among individuals; because the polis can best promote the good life, it should be adopted over other forms of social organization.