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.

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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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1983 | Washington, D.C.

Rising Tide of Mediocrity

America is losing its competitive edge.More

c. 1506 | Italy

Bestiary

Desiderius Erasmus lets nature take its course.More

1837 | Cambridge

Man Thinking

Emerson challenges bookworms to leave the library.More

Charts & Graphs

Thought Control

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

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Black and white photograph of Irish poet and writer W. B. Yeats.

Black and white photograph of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung seated with legs crossed.

Portrait of third president of the United States Thomas Jefferson.

Black and white photograph of Friedrich Nietzsche with a huge mustache.

Painted portrait of English poet John Milton.

American philosopher and academic Allan Bloom.

Painted portrait of former American first lady Abigail Adams.

Black and white photograph of a young F. Scott Fitzgerald sitting at a desk.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

—H.G. Wells, 1920

Aristotle & John Locke

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