Should We Educate for Citizenship? By Signe Josefsson “We have physicists, geometers, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians, painters; we no longer have citizens.” – Rousseau In the essay ”Discourse on the Sciences and Arts”, Rousseau contends that arts and sciences are, not only useless and redundant areas of study, but also vices that destroy virtuous conduct and makes us forget about…
Should We Educate for Citizenship? By Signe Josefsson “We have physicists, geometers, chemists, astronomers, poets, musicians, painters; we no longer have citizens.” – Rousseau In the essay ”Discourse on the Sciences and Arts”, Rousseau contends that arts and sciences are, not only useless and redundant areas of study, but also…
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