FREEDOM DEFINED
MEANING IN EDUCATION The lecture on the meaning of freedom in education which Dr. I. L. Kandel, of New York, delivered in Melbourne last year as the tenth John Smyth Memorial Lecture has now been published by the Melbourne University Press. ' * Certain ideas about education prevalent to-day meet with Dr. Kandel's condemnation. He says that "tho mystical, irrational notion that freedom is synonymous with the right to follow inner drives ignores both the history and the meaning of freedom" and adds that "democracies will fail if they attempt to adopt a type of education which ignores any values but those chosen by each individual to suit tho needs of tho moment# Freedom implies responsibility and a free society must have as its foundation common agreement, common social faith and common values. It is upon these common elements, consciously and deliberately recognised and defined that education can build a free personality, "The Strife of Tongues," by I. L. Kandel. (Melbourne University Pross.)
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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163FREEDOM DEFINED New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)
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