Sri Dattatreya, who Lord Krishna quotes in "The Uddhava Gita", has been evoked as a guru for environmental education. Sri Dattatreya gained enlightenment by observing the world, which provided Him with 24 instructors. These taught Him the futility of mundane attachments, the benefits of contemplation and forebearance, and a path towards the…

This study located significant patterns within the thought systems of sixty-three influential leaders in three southern California school districts and discussed the implications for school policy. (Author/SF)

DISCUSSION WAS PRESENTED ON THE INTERACTION BETWEEN EDUCATIONAL AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS. PHILOSOPHICAL TREATMENTS WERE PRESENTED ON THE EFFECTS OF POLITICAL LIFE UPON EDUCATION. DISCUSSION TOPICS INCLUDED THE POLITICAL SYSTEM, THE EDUCATIONAL SUBSYSTEM, THE DISSEMINATION OF VALUES, SANCTIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONAL DEFENSE. DEVELOPMENT OF CURRENT…

New possibilities for cultural vision and purpose can become realities only through a new radicalism: that the arts, religion and, the humanities are real sources of knowledge about the world in which we live, modes of knowing on a par with science and technology. (MJB)

Identifies links between Ernest Boyer's and Isocrates's educational philosophies. Describes a freshman composition class adopting Isocrates's emphases on the use of language to craft ideas, social issues, and citizenship. Argues that the re-creation of Isocrates's model necessitates that current political/academic demands for cultural literacy and…

The concept of classrooms as self-determining communities may be a hindrance to democratic education, since, typically, the main impediment to freedom for the young comes not from external interference but rather from the child's own limitations as to skill and knowledge. (MB)

Authors believe that the function of education should be the practice of freedom, and also that for this to become reality it is imperative that the cornerstone of such a conception of education be the original datum of education, the individual human being. (Authors/GB)

Argues against the current trend toward relevance, suggesting a return to traditional commitments by English educators. (RB)

Speech given before the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (22nd, Chicago, Ill., Feb. 1969)

The school as a social system is examined as it is and as it ought to be. The author argues for more concern with the process of being and becoming rather than with outcomes in the accumulation of knowledge. (JMF)

Includes a review of the origin and nature of the Protestant (Work) Ethic and a brief outline of some alternative ethics. Ethical and practical problems arise when career education presumes to advocate a single traditional work ethic; this article suggests a solution to these problems. (Author)

Living, learning, and loving are examined as three stages or phases of social and individual development which have implications for adult education. (JT)