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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Jefferson and Democratic Education
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Holowchak, M. Andrew – Democracy & Education, 2014
This essay is a reply to James Carpenter's "Thomas Jefferson and the Ideology of Democratic Schooling." In it, I argue that there is an apophatic strain in the essay that calls into question the motivation for the undertaking.
Descriptors: Reader Response, Democracy, Democratic Values, Citizenship Education
"The Diffusion of Light": Jefferson's Philosophy of Education
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Holowchak, M. Andrew – Democracy & Education, 2013
Jefferson's republicanism--a people-first, mostly bottom-up political vision with a moral underpinning--was critically dependent on general education for the citizenry and higher education for those who would govern. This paper contains an analysis of Jefferson's general philosophy of education by enumerating some of its most fundamental…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Attitudes, Political Attitudes, Elementary Education