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by Sidney Hook (Author)
. . . a remarkable book. . . . A most penetrating study of education. --Saturday Review of Literature . . . an admirable defense of the critical mind in education . . . Sidney Hook is among the the Children of the Light, that is to say, of the Enlightenment. --Albert Guerard, New York Herald Tribune . . . Mr. Hook has put his finger . . . upon the profound fallacy of most of the current attempts to 'reorganize' higher education . . . exciting reading --Howard Mumford Jones, New York Times . . . needed by anyone who wishes to have a comprehensive view of the problems of modern education. --Wendell Johnson, Chicago Sun Sidney Hook brings . . . a new high standard of sanity and clarity. . . . For sheer excellence of logic, and for magic of comprehensiveness, the book is head and shoulders above all recent competitors. --William Randel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch . . . a fine book . . . it has the advantage of Mr. Hook's dissecting mind, operating with the cleanness of a surgical instrument. --Jerome Nathanson, The New Republic Wisely sane. --John Dewey
Author Biography
Sidney Hook (1902-1987) was one of America's foremost social and political philosophers of the twentieth century. A student and acolyte of John Dewey, of whom he wrote a well-regarded intellectual portrait, he taught at all educational levels. He spent the bulk of his career as professor of philosophy at New York University, which awarded him the "Great Teacher Award" in 1963. He wrote well-received works in many areas, including, in addition to education, Marxism, pragmatism, the philosophy of history, the philosophy of democracy, and ethical issues such as euthanasia and suicide. Hook felt keenly about the importance of education for citizens of a democracy and in this volume spells out his views on how society may seek to implement that goal.
