The Paideia Propasal: an educational Manifesto by Motimer Adler, in my opinion, is a very well written book. ... According to this writter this book sends out a message about how our schools are in dire need of reform, to say the least. ... Democracy and Education In the Book Adler points out a book written by John Dewey "Democracy and Education" written in 1916. ... Adler writes: we cannot say from one end of our mouth that we are for democracy and all its free institutions and out of the other end say that ony some of the children -- fewer than half -- are educable for full citezenship...

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The students, who have no free will, then have bestowed upon them the limitless information that said teacher possesses. They are given no chance to question what information the omniscient teacher teaches to them and therefore have no free will to make decisions or to think outside the box. ... But on the same note, there should also be time for them to unwind and let it sink in so as to allow them to understand it and gather the full meaning of what was posed to them. ... Rather than having the teachers spit useless interpretations of the book at us, we were given the task of interpreting...

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• Grade Level: High School