Norms and Nobility
A Treatise on Education
2nd Edition
Published on 6. August 2024
216 pages
978-1-5381-9536-9 (ISBN)
Description
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 Table
ISBN-13
978-1-5381-9536-9 (9781538195369)
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08/2024
2nd Edition
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Persons
David V. Hicks graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton and read Philosophy at Oxford. He taught strategy at the Naval War College while serving in the Navy and spent most of his life heading independent schools and serving on school, foundation, and seminary boards in America and abroad. He wrote his first book, winner of an ALA Award in Education, Norms & Nobility, while still in his twenties. Since then, he and his brother Scot, an international school head, have collaborated on a number of translations: The Emperor's Handbook (Marcus Aurelius' Meditations) published by Scribner, and an annotated series of Plutarch's Lives, The Lawgivers, The Statesmen, and The Tyrant, published by CiRCE. Classical Academic Press will publish his new book, The Stones Cry Out!, in 2024. He and his wife Mary Elizabeth have four grown children and live on a ranch near Harrison, Montana.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface to the 2024 Edition
- Preface to the 1990 Edition
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- PART I. THE IDEA OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
- 1. Virtue Is the Fruit of Learning
- 2. The Word Is Truth
- 3. Teaching the Father of the Man
- 4. The Tyrannizing Image
- 5. Saving the Appearances
- 6. On the Necessity of Dogma
- 7. The Ennobling of the Masses
- 8. The Promise of Christian Paideia
- PART II. THE PRACTICE OF A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
- 9. A Curriculum Proposal (What Might Have Been)
- 10. Some Questions and Assumptions (What Ought to Be)
- 11. Three Schools in One Academy
- 12. The School within the School
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
