The Grammar of Our Civility Classical Education in America
| Author/creator | Pearcy, Lee T., 1947- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Waco : Baylor University Press |
| Description | 184 p. 09.000 x 06.080 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation 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. In The Grammar of Our Civility, Lee T Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. The book 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 America. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005004101 |
| ISBN | 9781932792164 |
| ISBN | 1932792163 (Perfect) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781932792164 |
| Stock number | 00003347 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |