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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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What If Education Is Not a Race?: The Need within Democratic Life to See Education as a Personal, Interpersonal, and Transpersonal Journey and the Present Possibilities for Helping the People to See This
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Novak, Bruce – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2010
In this paper, the author outlines what No Child Left Behind policy might mean first in personal then in philosophical terms. First, the author will trace a bit of Obama's own educational development: how he was first set on a personal educational journey and how, proceeding along with that journey, he eventually came to successfully elicit "us"…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Federal Legislation, Presidents, Social Justice
The Audacity of Thought: Seeing Thinking as the Moral Virtue Pivotal to the Re-Founding of Democracy on a Moral Basis
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Novak, Bruce – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2009
The theme of intellectual courage can help anyone re-conceive the activity of philosophizing as a "moral" virtue. For Aristotle, courage was the first of the moral virtues, empowering noble action in the human realm, contemplation the last and highest of the intellectual virtues, enabling the union of the human mind with the eternal and divine,…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Public Service, Social Environment