Chapter Two: Tozer, Violas, and Senese

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Chapter Two Tozer, Violas, and Senese

• Classical Liberalism

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What are the six ideas central to Classical
Liberalism?

• Faith in reason
• Natural Law
• Republican Virtue
• Progress
• Nationalism
• Freedom

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How would you basically describe these six ideas?

• Faith in Reason
• Blank Slate reason is the first born daughter of
  science
• Natural Law
• The Universe is a Machine - p. 23
• Republican Virtue
• love of country, probity, strict moral code,
  sacrifice private profit for the public good

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Six ideas.

• Progress
• Discover more about natural law, and the
  resulting control over universe and social
  relations would improve human life.
• Nationalism
• Commitment to the nation-state. All America is
  thrown into one mass. I am not a Virginia, but
  an American. Patrick Henry
• Freedom
• intellectual, political, civil, and economic

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What was Jeffersons moral philosophy and how did
it affect his view of education?

• Moral sense is innate in all humans in a
  greater or lesser degree. It may be strengthened
  by exercise, as may any particular limb of the
  body. p. 29

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How did Jefferson see the establishment of
elementary schools?

• Districts to serve as local units of government,
  decentralized.
• Each district school would provide free schooling
  for free children for three years or
• curriculum - uncluttered and wholly intellectual
  p. 32.

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Jeffersons Grammar School?

• Purpose?
• preparatory
• Who attended?
• 20 selectedhow?
• Who went on?
• How? P. 33

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Jeffersons University

• A place of professional and advanced scientific
  education rather than simply as a collegiate
  institution of general liberal studies.
• Education in like manner engrafts a new man on
  the native stock, and improves what in his nature
  was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue
  and social worth.

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Life longself education

• His commitment to lifelong educationgrounded in
  conviction development of reason, expansion of
  intellect, and inquiry into the mysteries of the
  universe.
• Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, and
  knowledge is happiness.

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Faculty Psychology

• Memory, reason and imagination...