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Moral Values and Civic Education: An Essay on "The Interrelation of Aims" |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / T.S. ELIOT ON THE AIMS OF EDUCATION |
| Author: Robert K. Fullinwider |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 5,448 Words, 33,693 Characters |
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Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle upon which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children Stick to Facts, sir!
-Schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind
(Charles Dickens, Hard Times)
In the educational philosophy of Thomas Gradgrind, we have an extreme expression of the spirit of "instruction" that T.S. Eliot deplored. In the Idea of a Christian society (1940), Eliot repeatedly drew the distinction between "education" and (mere) "instruction," and, although he never made the distinction precise, ...
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...ces a source of genuine and abiding deep justification for the civic virtues. Each should be able to give deeper reasons in support of what is possible under our peculiar conditions. Eliciting those deeper reasons that converge from different traditions to support the "possible for us" ought to be, for one like Eliot, an attractive enterprise: the liberal project of a conserving disposition.
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