Alexander Meiklejohn Papers, 1880-1976

Appendix I: List of Readings from Education for a Free Society

  1. “The Making of Man,” adapted from What Does America Mean?, Chapter 3.
  2. “The Mind of a Nation,” adapted from “Making the Mind of a Nation,” The Liberal College, Chapter 4.
  3. “The Role of the Teacher,” adapted from “What the Liberal College Is,” Inaugural Address, 1912. In The Liberal College, Chapter 2.
  4. “The Hare and the Tortise,” (Under the Elms), adapted from Brown University address, 1953.
  5. “From Church to State,” adapted from Education Between Two Worlds, Chapter i.
  6. “The Values of a State,” adapted from an address at Mills College, 1951.
  7. “Teacher, Teach Thyself!” adapted from Presidential address to American Association for Adult Education, 1943.
  8. “Education for Self-Government,” adapted from Education Between Two Worlds, Introduction; new material added.
  9. “Self-Government or Anarchy?” adapted from Free Speech, Chapter i.
  10. “Leaders and Followers.”
  11. “Freedom and Liberty,” adapted from Experimental College Reunion Address, 1957.
  12. “The First Amendment,” adapted from We the People, Testimony before Hennings Sub-Committee, 1955.
  13. “The Task of the Teacher,” adapted from Free Speech, Chapter 4.
  14. “Freedom and Liberty,” adapted from “The American College and American Freedom, Ex-College Reunion Address, 1957.
  15. “Freedom and Obligation,” adapted from What Does America Mean?, Chapter 2.
  16. “Educational Leadership,” adapted from Reed College Address, 1925.
  17. “Knowledge and Intelligence,” adapted from “The American College and American Freedom.”
  18. “John Amos Comenius,” adapted from Education Between Two Worlds, Chapter 2.
  19. “A Proposal: 1918,” adapted from Report of the President, 1918.
  20. “A Required Curriculum?” adapted from AAC address, 1923.
  21. “Some Objections Considered,” adapted from “Required Education for Freedom,” American Scholar, Autumn 1944.
  22. “Problems in American Education,” adapted from address to National Student Federation of America, Ann Arbor, 1926.
  23. “A Unified Curriculum,” adapted from “The American College and American Freedom.”
  24. “The Experimental College,” adapted from The Experimental College, pp. 3-8.
  25. “The Lower College,” adapted from The Experimental College, pp. 20-24, 138-140.
  26. “Responsibility and Books,” adapted from The Experimental College, pp. 30-36.
  27. “Understanding is Integration,” Ibid, pp. 45-57.
  28. “A Republic of Learning,” Princeton Bicentennial, 1946.
  29. “Adult Education: A Fresh Start,” New Republic, August 15, 1934.
  30. “The Brotherhood of Man,” adapted from Learning and Living, Ex-College Reunion, 1942.
  31. “Education as a Factor in Post-War Reconstruction, adapted from article in Free World, January 1943.
  32. “Education Under the Charter,” adapted from Free World, October 1945.
  33. “To Teach the World How to Be Free,” from New York Times, August 11, 1946.
  34. “Who Should Go To College?” from New Republic, January 16, 1929. (Book Review)
  35. “The Future of Liberal Education,” from New Republic, January 25, 1943.
  36. “Federal Support of Education,” adapted from unpublished manuscript, 1938.
  37. “To Whom Are We Responsible?” adapted from Freedom and the College, Chapter 1.
  38. “The Freedom of the College,” Atlantic Monthly, January 1918.
  39. “The Autonomy of the Faculty,” adapted from Crisis at University of California, 1949.
  40. “Educational Cooperation Between Church and State,” adapted from Law and Contemporary Problems, Duke School of Law, Winter 1949.
  41. “Teachers and Controversial Question,” adapted from Harper's, June 1938.
  42. “The Machine City,” adapted from address on founding of Pawtucket, and printed in Freedom and the College.
  43. “Higher Education in a Democracy,” adapted from address to college presidents and deans, 1941.
  44. “The Source of Christian Values,” adapted from Learning and Living, compare with “The Faith of a Free Man” in material for The Teacher in a Free Society.