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Education and Democracy Education and Democracy The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn 1872–1964 Adam R. Nelson THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Copyright © 2001 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. 3 5 4 2 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, Adam R. Education and democracy : the meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1872–1964 / Adam R. Nelson. pp. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-299-17140-X 1. Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872–1964. 2. Educators—United States—Biography. 3. Education, Humanistic—United States—History—20th century. I. Title LB875.M332 N45 2001 370.92—dc21 00-011979 ISBN-13: 978-0-299-17144-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) Publication of this volume was originally made possible in part by funds provided by the Evjue Foundation and the support of the Anonymous Fund of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. For my family: Mom, Dad, and Matt Should you ask me what the relation is between liberal education and democracy, the answer would be easy: they are the same thing. Alexander Meiklejohn “Education and Democracy,” 1923 One of the deepest and most active convictions just now in our . . . society is this: that there is no common basis for men’s reasoning; that at the bottom of all reasoning there is irrationality; that every man starts from his own private designs; that, after all, reasoning is rationalizing, and the old dream of a common truth, a common intelligence, a common intellectual inquiry, is gone, and gone forever. Alexander Meiklejohn “Higher Education in a Democracy,” October 1941 Contents Illustrations ix Preface: Meiklejohn, Socrates, and the Paradox of Democratic Education xi Acknowledgments xvii PROVIDENCE, 1872–1911 1. “A Voyage across the Atlantic” and “Kant’s Ethics,” 1872–1899 3 2. “College Education and the Moral Ideal,” 1900–1911 33 AMHERST, 1912–1924 3. “The College as Critic,” 1912–1919 61 4. “To Whom Are We Responsible?” 1920–1924 97 MADISON, 1925–1932 5. “A New College with a New Idea,” 1925–1928 133 6. “A Most Lamentable Comedy,” 1929–1932 165 BERKELEY, 1933–1947 7. “Adult Education: A Fresh Start,” 1933–1940 199 8. “A Reply to John Dewey,” 1941–1947 233 BERKELEY, 1948–1964 9. “What Does the First Amendment Mean?” 1948–1954 263 10. “The Faith of a Free Man,” 1955–1964 296 vii Contents Afterword: Education and the Democratic Ideal—The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn 329 Notes 337 Bibliography and Suggestions for Further Reading 391 Index 403 viii Illustrations Alexander Meiklejohn at the age of ten in Appanoag, Rhode Island, 1882 8 Alexander Meiklejohn and members of the Theta Delta Chi fraternity at Brown University, ca. 1891 15 Alexander Meiklejohn as a senior at Brown University, 1893 19 Alexander Meiklejohn and members of the Brown University ice polo team, 1894 30 Alexander Meiklejohn as dean of Brown University, ca. 1902 36 Alexander Meiklejohn with his cricket bat, ca. 1911 38 The academic parade at Amherst College during the inauguration of Alexander Meiklejohn, 1912 62 Alexander Meiklejohn as president of Amherst College, 1912 66 Alexander Meiklejohn as president of Amherst College, ca. 1912 68 Alexander Meiklejohn at his desk in the president’s office at Amherst College, ca. 1913 70 Kenneth, Gordon, and Donald Meiklejohn with their dog on the steps in front of the president’s house at Amherst College, 1913 78 Members of the Student Army Training Corps (SATC) marching at Amherst College, 1917 92 The Amherst Ambulance Unit presenting its flags to Alexander Meiklejohn, 1918 93 Alexander Meiklejohn with members of the Amherst College Board of Trustees at the Centennial Celebration luncheon, 1921 104 George Bosworth Churchill, professor of English at Amherst College, ca. 1923 106 Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, ignoring ix
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