Great Books, Reform, and the Catholic Educational Tradition: A Reply.

Lyon, John

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Publication Date: 1981

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Great Books, Reform, and the Catholic Educational Tradition: A Reply.

Lyon, John

Journal of General Education, v33 n2 p148-53 Sum 1981

Responds to an article on St. Thomas Aquinas College's Great Books Curriculum (EJ 240 962). Endorses the program's aims of using Great Books as a means to truth, not as an end in themselves, but feels that the approach is too narrow and too reliant upon authority and that it fails to develop complex thinking and knowing methods. (DMM)

Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Curriculum Problems, Educational Objectives, General Education, Higher Education, Literature, Reading Programs

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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