Education for Democracy

Essays and Addresses

John Johnston

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1934
• eBook ISBN:
  9781452937953
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Education for Democracy was first published in 1934. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.“The Greek ideal of the citizen realizing himself in the state” is the heart of Dean Johnston’s philosophy developed in this book. He is concerned not merely with education, but with our current economic, political, social, and ethical problems, which education directed toward service to the state may help to solve.This is a book in which an ideal rather than a theory of education is clearly stated at the beginning, and developed like a theme in music. The author, speaking from a long and varied experience as scientist, teacher, and college administrator, sees the only hope of a future democratic state in the selection and training of competent and unselfish leaders.This selection, he firmly believes, is the task of the schools and especially of the colleges. By “selection” he means – he is careful to point out – not the exclusion of any capable person from higher education, but a careful fitting of every individual for the occupation in which he will be most happy and will render the best service to society.The papers collected here all deal with some variation of this theme. They draw up a striking indictment of many current educational practices, while pointing the way, as this prominent educator sees it, toward the alleviation of that “social manic-depressive insanity” with which our civilization is now afflicted.

Table of contents

• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• I. WHAT PARENTS MAY EXPECT IN THEIR CHILDREN
• II. THE OPPORTUNITY AND DUTY OF THE COLLEGE
• III. THE SETTING OF PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
• IV. THE WORK OF THE LIBERAL COLLEGE IN VIEW OF ITS PROFESSIONAL AIMS
• V. THE ORGANIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION WITH REFERENCE TO VOCATIONAL TRAINING
• VI. NEW DEMANDS FOR DIFFERENTIAL TREATMENT OF STUDENTS IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
• VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF DIFFERENTIAL COLLEGE CURRICULA
• VIII. INTEGRATION OF THE SENIOR COLLEGE AND THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
• IX. GUIDANCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
• X. THE GUIDANCE FUNCTION IN EDUCATION
• XI. How SHALL OUR STUDENTS FACE THEIR FUTURE?
• XII. THE CURRICULUM AND PREPARATION FOR LIFE
• XIII. HIGHER EDUCATION AND PUBLIC POLICIES
• XIV. A STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION