Liberal education: I
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 28-10-17 13:54
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- Liberal vs Liberal Education
- Liberal education
- Students should be trained to think criticially
- Always spell with a capital
- Liberal refers to freedom of thought and expression
- liberal means freedom of behaviour
- Two arguments against Liberalism
- Not arguments for authoritarianism
- Relativism
- There are no moral truths
- Everything is acceptable as everything else
- No 'Archimedean point', etc)
- Bad thing?
- Therefore liberalism is a bad thing
- Liberalism leads to moral relativism
- II
- 1. Lies and what follows from lies are dangerous
- Different contexts would require we spell out 'dangerous' in different ways
- 2. If you love and care for people you want to protect them from danger
- 3. If you love and care for people then you should protect them from lies
- from 1 and 2
- 4. Liberal education means more people are more likely to believe and act on lies
- As there is more uncertainty and more chances of being led to believe wrong things
- Therefore, as an act of love and care we should limit (or stop) Liberal education
- 1. Lies and what follows from lies are dangerous
- Authoritarian education
- Students are blank slates and simply absorb what they are taught
- Methods of education
- Punishment
- Reward
- Emotive imagery and manipulation
- Social pressure
- Isolation
- Control and censorship
- Tribalism
- Observation
- Liberal and be religious
- Atheist and Authoritarian
- Distinction is vital for disentangling debates about education in Contemporary World
- Liberal education
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