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Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education

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A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.
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    0761814671
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    University Press of America
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    September 30, 1999
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    English
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    6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
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    182 pages
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David V. Hicks is President of the Darlington School in Rome, Ga.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of America (September 30, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0761814671
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0761814672
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
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SusieQ
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight!
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016
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Excellent book. It is brilliant, actually. Philosophers like Hicks can't exist anymore, with the current indoctrination (Marxist/Common Core) system where "critically thinking" is not only prevented and punished, it is erased (on purpose, as Fichte dreamed--google "snow is black" and the elimination of Free Will (1810)). We need to go back to pre-Dewey. Actually, pre-Mann to get back to the Minds of a Tesla or Newton and back to Classical Christian Curricula---the only one capable of producing the Age of Reason and Modern Science and the US Constitution of Free Will and Individualism. Tribal Minds (collective/socialist "group-thinkers" are the Norm---the US actually created true Freedom--as much as possible---Individualism vs. Collectivism/socialism/slavery mindset. (Either you embed critical thinking skills/tools or you program a "bot"--cog in the wheel for the corporations/slavery. You choose--Natural Family or artificial warped environments away from Reason/Real Life Mastery.
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Tennis Fiend
5.0 out of 5 stars Consider what is occurring now.
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
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Norms and Nobility provides an insightful look into education from a perspective which runs counter to what is occurring now (NCLB and Race to the Top) in education, even though the book was written twenty years ago. Hicks correctly depicts faulty trends in education, and his voice sounds a warning similar to what you might read about what is occurring in medicine today. The book is not a quick read; it requires concentration and thought. But the person who sticks with it will find his view of education expanded, if not changed.
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Winston Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars A profound critique and a hopeful vision
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
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This book offers the most profound critique of contemporary education I have read, and it also offers the most hopeful vision for moving forward. That vision is classical studies, understood in democratic and Christian ways. What would be helpful now would be a thousand brief articles and essays introducing its many insights to a broader audience.
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Johnnie Seago
4.0 out of 5 stars High price and high quality
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
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This is the best book on classical education EVER. I wish someone would republish so I could afford to buy a box for my staff. Just too expensive for that!
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William Bryant
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Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2014
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Second best book on education I've ever read. Best is Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
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A treasure!
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Jason Carter
5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth overpaying for this excellent book
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2020
So good, I would give this six stars if available.

Hicks, in a small book (<160 pages) covers an immense amount of ground. Beginning with the <almost incontrovertible> observation that there is something very wrong with modern American education (and this book was first published over 20 years ago), Hicks builds the case for a return to classical education.

He argues throughout that modern education has abandoned normative education (ie teaching the young both how to think and what to do) for the purely analytical. That the scientific method, proper in its own domain, is wholly incapable of the leap from what is to what ought to be.

He offers critiques of the democratic mindset applied to education--and devastating critiques of the modern teaching academy--but doesn't stop with the negative. Instead, he rebuilds a positive model of classical education, one built on the humane letters of the ancient texts. Further, he goes so far as to offer a full curriculum for the 7th-12th grades.

So much insight. So much wisdom. So many reasons to read this book. Six stars.
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