School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

Ways of Learning

Volume 1, Number 4 | fall 2008

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A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

Preamble

Playing with Fire

By Lewis H. Lapham

The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels.

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A primary school in the field, 1900.

Catch and Release

By D. Graham Burnett

A history of pedagogical practices in the classroom and in the field.

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The Art of Knowing

Advancements in writing, medicine, mapmaking, and building.

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c. 796 | Tours

Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom

Alcuin of York begs for books.More

1906 | New York City

Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine

We are all but sewing machines.More

2008 | New Haven

Trimming the Ivy

William Deresiewicz finds a gap in his education.More

Charts & Graphs

Thought Control

Books condemned by U.S. public schools during the 1980s.

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Black and white photograph of a young Mark Twain with dark hair.

Depiction of Greek philosopher Plato.

Photograph of British writer Roald Dahl.

Black and white photograph of critic and novelist Mary McCarthy.

French man of letters Denis Diderot.

Black and white photograph of historian and man of letters Henry Adams.

Color image of English novelist Charlotte Brontë with book in hand.

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

That which is evil is soon learned.

—John Ray, 1670

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Aristotle & John Locke

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