What is educating for liberty? This session provides an historical overview to the question, and engages emerging challenges to forming young people for a proper understanding of freedom and its responsible exercise.
Recommended Readings
Theories of Education in Early America, 1655-1819, Wilson Smith, ed., 1973 (Bobbs-Merrill)
American Writings on Popular Education: The 19th Century, Rush Welter, ed., 1971 (Macmillan)
Education in a Free Society, Anne Husted Burleigh, ed., 1973 (Liberty Fund)
The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, 1943 (Harper)
Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform, Diane Ravitch, 2001 (Simon and Schuster)
Course Years:
2026,
2023,
2022,
2019
Instructor
Todd Flanders, Ph.D.
Headmaster
Providence Academy
