- Hardcover: 296 pages
- Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited (18 April 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0948275189
- ISBN-13: 978-0948275180
- Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 781,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Stands Scotland where it did?,
By Stephen Cowley (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Crisis of the Democratic Intellect: The Problem of Generalization and Specialization in Twentieth-century Scotland (Hardcover)
This book proposes Scottish education as the cause of alleged defects in Scottish literature and society in the 20th century. As in his previous The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century (1961), Davie raises the debate to the level of philosophy. George Davie knew personally many of the people he writes about here, including Norman Kemp Smith, his philosophy tutor at Edinburgh University and his friend the journalist and poet Christopher Grieve ("Hugh MacDiarmid"). He argues that the Scottish Education Department limited Scottish education to training secondary school teachers, with ambitious students sent on to Oxford for 'higher culture'. The generalist education the system of highers was meant to encourage thus became too given to rote learning, with the opportunity to draw comparisons between subjects neglected and school students becoming disoriented as they were prepared to be passive workers and consumers rather than citizens. The way he tells the story, sceptical or realist philosophers like NK Smith and John Anderson stood in opposition to this. Having been through the education system he describes, I warmed to his descriptions of generalist philosophy. However, I have to say, in my experience he underestimates a good few Scottish schoolteachers.
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Stands Scotland where it did?,
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This review is from: Crisis of the Democratic Intellect: The Problem of Generalization and Specialization in Twentieth-century Scotland (Hardcover)
This book proposes Scottish education as the cause of alleged defects in Scottish literature and society in the 20th century. As in his previous The Democratic Intellect (1961), Davie raises the debate to the level of philosophy. George Davie knew personally many of the people he writes about here, including Norman Kemp Smith, his philosophy tutor at Edinburgh University and his friend the journalist and poet Christopher Grieve ("Hugh MacDiarmid"). He argues that the Scottish Education Department limited Scottish education to training secondary school teachers, with ambitious students sent on to Oxford for 'higher culture'. The generalist education the system of highers was meant to encourage thus became too given to rote learning, with the opportunity to draw comparisons between subjects neglected and school students becoming disoriented as they were prepared to be passive workers and consumers rather than citizens. The way he tells the story, sceptical or realist philosophers like NK Smith and John Anderson stood in opposition to this. Having been through the education system he describes, I warmed to his descriptions of generalist philosophy. However, I have to say, in my experience he underestimates a good few Scottish schoolteachers. |
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