Grammar of Our Civility - Classical Education in AmericaPaperback
Grammar of Our Civility - Classical Education in AmericaPaperback The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant…
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Grammar of Our Civility - Classical Education in AmericaPaperback
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury--and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T.
Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. The Grammar of Our Civility also offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education, one that takes into account practical expectations for higher education in twenty-first century