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Oakeshott on education.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Alan Barcan's letter (December 2005) makes some points about the educational ideas of Michael Oakeshott that are laughably inaccurate. According to Barcan, who cites a passage from "The Voice of Poetry in the Conversation of Mankind", Oakeshott did not think that students should be in possession of substantive cultural knowledge before they take part in the conversation of mankind. Nothing could be further from Oakeshott's true position. In his 1965 essay "Learning and Teaching" he emphasises the importance of information as well as judgment in education. He was often at pains to stress that education was not general but specific. As he memorably put it in a lecture in ...
- The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 22, 1989 700+ words
...LIBERAL LEARNING: MICHAEL OAKESHOTT ON EDUCATION. Edited by Timothy...gooders want to make education more informal...culturally literate". Michael Oakeshott, one of Britain...central purpose of education. One of his admirers...
- Michael Oakeshott and the Idea of Liberal Education.
- Magazine article from: Social Theory and Practice McCabe, David September 22, 2000 700+ words
...should affect university education. In what follows I want...broad approach to liberal education evinced in the work of Michael Oakeshott, the late British philosopher...advancing the ideal of liberal education, and will then discuss...
- Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Independent Review Callahan, Gene September 22, 2005 700+ words
Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction By Paul Franco...2004. Pp. 224. $30.00 cloth Michael Oakeshott was one of the most elusive and intriguing...wrote on aesthetics, morality, education, and even horse racing (he coauthored...
- Michael Oakeshott.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Barcan, Alan March 1, 2006 700+ words
...2006) that I had no intention of challenging the conservative credentials of Michael Oakeshott and accept that he valued both information and judgment in education. My reaction to the Oakeshott quotation on the "conversation begun in the primeval...
- The world of Michael Oakeshott.(The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott)(In Defence...
- Magazine article from: Modern Age Corey, Elizabeth June 22, 2006 700+ words
The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott, by Terry Nardin, University...Vision and Philosophy in Michael Oakeshott, by Efraim Podoksik, Exeter...Academic, 2003. 268 pp. Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction, by Paul...
- The sad and noble music of Michael Oakeshott: politics in an Elgarian...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter June 1, 2004 700+ words
...embarrassment when being explained. --Michael Oakeshott Nobody can hope to understand the politics...centuries of the Christian era. --Michael Oakeshott Call me Mickey. --Michael Oakeshott (in New York) THE BOOM in Michael...
- Michael Oakeshott, RIP. (philosopher) (obituary)
- Magazine article from: National Review Hart, Jeffrey January 28, 1991 700+ words
MICHAEL OAKESHOTT established modesty as a philosophical...not overlooked J. S. Mill). Michael Oakeshott was the guest of honor at NR...greatest hoax. That wasn't Michael Oakeshott. That was an actor playing a...
- Escaping Plato's Cave: A Parable for Politicians.(Lectures in the History of...
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Coleman, Peter April 1, 2006 700+ words
...History of Political Thought, by Michael Oakeshott, edited by Terry Nardin and Luke...Poetic Experience in the Thought of Michael Oakeshott, by Glenn Worthington; Imprint...Evil" to an Art of Contingency: Michael Oakeshott's Conception of Political Activity...