To those weary and wary of the cacophony about whats wrong with education inAmerica and what ought to be done about it Oakeshotts voice beckons. Asusual his app... » 

To those weary and wary of the cacophony about whats wrong with education inAmerica and what ought to be done about it Oakeshotts voice beckons. Asusual his approach to the subject is subtle comprehensive and radical inthe sense of summoning readers to the root of the matter. That root Oakeshottbelieved is the very nature of learning itself and concomitantly the meansas distinct from the method by which the life of learning is discoveredcultivated and pursued. As Oakeshott has written This then is what we areconcerned with adventures in human selfunderstanding. Not the bareprotestation that a human being is a selfconscious reflective intelligenceand that he does not live by bread alone but the actual enquiries utterancesand actions in which human beings have expressed their understanding of thehuman condition. This is the stuff of what has come to be called a liberaleducation liberal because it is liberated from the distracting business ofsatisfying contingent wants. Includes a foreword by Timothy Fuller thatreiterates the timelessness of Oakeshotts reflections amid the continuingclamour that characterises discourse about liberal education. «