Princely Education in Early Modern Britain
Author | : Aysha Pollnitz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : EDUCATION |
ISBN | : 9781316318935 |
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"In the early twenty-first century, the value of liberal education is publicly doubted by politicians, businesses, many schools, colleges and universities, and parents in liberaldemocratic nations. Voices from both ends of the political spectrum question the utility of the skills it generates and they argue that the humanities turn their acolytes into rabid liberals. To some, liberal education is too left-wing and secular. To others, it is too western, white, male, privileged, and hetero-normative.1 Its critics rarely acknowledge that they are making use of a discourse that is much older than the liberal-democratic state, or liberalism itself"--