The Experimental College by Alexander Meiklejohn

The Experimental College by Alexander Meiklejohn

Established at the University of Wisconsin in 1927 by educational theorist Alexander Meiklejohn, the Experimental College was a small residence-based programme within the university that provided a core curriculum of liberal education of two years of college. This is a record of the experiment.

Alexander Meiklejohn's significance in the history of American education stems largely from his willingness to put ideas into actionBy asking sharp questions about enduring purposes of liberal democratic education, Meiklejohn presents a message that is meaningful and useful in any age. - Adam Nelson, author of Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872-1964 The normal young American expects on his twenty-first birthday not a new sense of responsibility but a new automobile. The Experimental College rests upon the assertion that, against the specialized teaching of men for banking, for scholarship, for industry, for art, for medicine, and the like, there is the general liberal teaching of men for intelligence in the conduct of their own lives. - Alexander Meiklejohn, 1932

Alexander Meiklejohn (1872-1964) authored many books, including Free Speech and Its Relation to Self-Government. A dean at Brown University and then president of Amherst College, he founded the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and the San Francisco School of Social Studies. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 for his activities in defense of First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, and assembly during the McCarthy era.

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ISBN 13	9780299172442
ISBN 10	0299172449
Title	The Experimental College
Author	Alexander Meiklejohn
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wisconsin Press
Year published	2001-08-30
Number of pages	454
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