HO409 Education and the Fate of Nations

This course in the "Crisis of the West" sequence focuses on questions concerning the philosophy of education. Plato: The Republic (II, III, VII); Confucius: Analects; John Henry Newman: The Idea of a University W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk; Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind; St. John Paul II: Faith and Reason.