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The Journal of General Education

Volume 50, Number 3, 2001

E-ISSN: 1527-2060 Print ISSN: 0021-3667

DOI: 10.1353/jge.2001.0021

Stevens, Anne H.
The Philosophy of General Education and Its Contradictions: The Influence of Hutchins
The Journal of General Education - Volume 50, Number 3, 2001, pp. 165-191

Penn State University Press

After a brief historical overview of general education programs at Chicago, Columbia, and elsewhere, the author discusses the tensions between the teaching of skills and the teaching of facts, between training in general knowledge and training for a particular career, between democracy and selectivity in education, and between universalist and historicist approaches to the great books.


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