The Grammar of Our Civility: Classical Education in America (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Grammar of Our Civility The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. This title offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education.
Full description- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Published: 17 August 2005
- Format: Paperback 184 pages
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- Categories: Language Teaching & Learning Material & Coursework | Literary Studies: General | Teaching Of A Specific Subject | European History | Ancient History: To C 500 CE
- ISBN 13: 9781932792164 ISBN 10: 1932792163
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Full description for The Grammar of Our Civility
The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this despite the fact that American democracy depends so heavily on classical language, literature, and political theory. In "The Grammar of Our Civility", Lee T Pearcy chronicles how this came to be. Pearcy argues that classics never developed a distinctly American way of responding to distinctly American social conditions. Instead, American classical education simply imitated European models that were designed to underwrite European culture. This book also offers a concrete proposal for the role of classical education, one that takes into account practical expectations for higher education in twenty-first century America.
