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Introduction: Responses to Eliot on Education
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MODERN THOUGHT
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8 / 1993 |
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Earlier this year (in the January and February issues), we published excerpts from the four lectures T.S. Eliot gave at the University of Chicago in 1950 on the aims of education. Each excerpt was followed by two essays written by contemporary scholars, and the whole series was illustrated by a pictorial biography of Eliot and accompanied by a chronology of his life and short extracts from his writings.
That publication has generated discussion over Eliot's views and their relation to our current educational problems. Opinions are widely different, and a sampling of nine responses to the lecture excerpts and the commentaries forms part of this month's Currents in Modern Thought section.
The nine writers hold a variety of positions in education, from Anne Gardner, a first-year teacher at Georgetown High School in South Carolina, to Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University; from Kathryn Lindskoog, critic, writer, and literature teacher, in California, to Jill McRae, of the Australian government's International Development Program, currently in a doctoral program at Harvard.
Eva Brann, dean of St. John's College in Annapolis, suggests in a very practical manner how the intellectual virtues can be extended into the moral virtues, while Kenneth Asher, professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo and author of a forthcoming book on Eliot, contends that Eliot's nostalgia limits his usefulness in our search for community.
Victoria Bocock, an educational diagnostician, sees Eliot as persuasive when he speaks from the
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