The Hazard Called Education by Joseph Agassi : Essays, Reviews, and Dialogues on Education from Forty-Five Years / / edited by Ronald Swartz, Sheldon Richmond.

• HerausgeberIn: Swartz, Ronald.; Richmond, Sheldon.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Joseph Agassi is known primarily among fellow academics as an exemplary historian and philosopher of science; an ardent critic and disciple of Karl Popper; a critical admirer of the work of Michael Polanyi; and a Socratic fly with the “sting of a bee” for all those who wear the intellectual fashions of the day. To most of Agassi’s students he is known primarily as an exemplary model of the Socratic teacher. The question of most urgency for educators today who care about the intellectual development of students is: How do we make ready our educational institutions for more Socratic teachers? The philosophical or theoretical question is: Why do we want Socratic teachers? In outline, of the many of Agassi’s educational essays selected for this book, Agassi answers those questions: authoritarianism (or anti-democracy) blocks the democratic reform of educational institutions where Socratic teachers and students could find a safe haven; and, Socratic teaching is the main anti-dote to authoritarianism. The removal of authoritarianism from education also removes the hazard that education has become to students; to their happiness, creativity, and dignity as autonomous individuals. .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Training to Survive the Hazard Called Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Autonomous Student / Joseph Agassi -- The Myth of the Young Genius / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- To Reform Higher Education: Towards a Manifesto / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Preaching of John Holt: Discussion of John Holt, The Underachieving School / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Teaching of Critical Thinking: Review of Francis Schragg, Thinking in School and Society / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Rituals to Block the Reform of Education, Review of Jerome S. Bruner’s, The Process of Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Top Schools: Review of D. Reynolds, B. Creemers, S. Stringfield, C. Teddlie, and G. Schaffer, eds., World Class Schools / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Educating Elites in Democratic Societies: A Dialogue / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Letter to Diane: Popper on Learning from Experience / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Education for Survival / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Science Education Without Pressure / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Planning for Science and Science Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- On Mathematics Education: The Lakatosian Revolution / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Mathematical Education as Training for Freedom / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Injury of Science Text Books: Review Essay of Michael Matthews, Science Teaching / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Master Relationship: Review of Warwick, Andrew, Masters of Theory / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- The Future of (Science) Higher Education / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- University President as Gun-Slinger 1: Academic Democracy Threatened / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- University President as Gun-Slinger 2: Review of Straight Shooting / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Disseminating Education for the Democratic Way of life Now / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond -- Afterword / Sheldon Richmond -- Last Word: Instruction / Joseph Agassi -- Appendix / Ronald Swartz and Sheldon Richmond.