Modern education can be understood only in the conceptual framework of one world, according to the author. As he points out, entering the twentieth century, the period of industrialization gave way to the atomic and space ages. Distinctions now begin to blur between eastern and western culture —the concept of one world must be faced.
Beginning with the primary rudiments of education-primitive and prehistoric man learning from his environment and his fellows, the book then moves to a description of the early cultures typical of the pre-Greek world.
Significantly, the author examines all four of the classical cultures which are the roots of western culture. Early Hebrew and Christian cultural contributions fill out a picture more often relegated to Greek and Roman culture alone.
The story of education in the "Age of Faith," the Middle Ages follows, and the remainder of the book traces the story of education from the Renaissance through the middle years of the twentieth century.
With a refreshing absence of pedantry, the author speaks in the clear, firm tones of sound scholarship. He provides stimulating intellectual excitement for the reader with his portrayals of leading thinkers and educators as rich human personalities as well as formative thinkers.
The role of the teacher in the modern world has seldom been enunciated more clearly. As Dr. Frost quotes Horace Mann, the true teacher will "be ashamed to die until" he has "won some victory for humanity."
S. E. Frost, Jr. (Ph.D., Columbia University) teaches in the Department of Education, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He also holds a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale University and has spent many years in the study and teaching of the history and philosophy of education. He is the author of five previous books on philosophy, religion, and education.
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