Idealism and Liberal Education

Contents

Contents Introduction 1 1. Life and Letters Becoming an Educator 9 The Joys of Collecting Books 31 A Dukedom Large Enough 43 Presidential Prose 49 The Stillness and the Courage 51 2. Content and Character in Liberal Education The Teaching of Values in a Liberal Education 55 The Promise of Equality 61 The Organization of Knowledge 69 Science and Liberal Learning 77 Liberal Education and the Legal Profession 81 The Lessons of the Law 93 The Professor's Life 99 3. Models for Shaping a Life Public Selves, Private Selves 105 The Power of Idealism 111 The Value of Intellectuals 115 Insiders and Outsiders 119 Thurgood Marshall: Man of Character 129 The Capacity of Imagination 145 Originals and Copies 149 Those Who Are Truly Great 155 Ordinary Backgrounds, Extraordinary Men 161 Essayists and Solitude 167 Index 173 ...