{"id":4252,"date":"2003-07-28T15:32:06","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2003-07-28T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T15:32:06","slug":"liberalism-and-republicanism-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4252","title":{"rendered":"liberalism and republicanism in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from Chestertown, MD (a really nice colonial town<\/p>\n

where George Washington slept a lot<\/I>). I was there to teach some elementary-through-high-school<\/p>\n

teachers about classical liberalism versus civic republicanism. The teachers are<\/p>\n

folks who use the "We the People Program" produced by the Center<\/p>\n

for Civic Education<\/A>; this is their state summer institute. They seemed to<\/p>\n

be pretty interested in the subject, although like all Americans they find it<\/p>\n

easier to grasp liberalism than civic republicanism. This is interesting (to them<\/p>\n

as well as me), since many of the motivations behind public education are civic<\/p>\n

republican rather than liberal. That is: a pure liberal may worry that making<\/p>\n

children into good citizens is "mind control" and represents illicit<\/p>\n

state support for a particular form of life, whereas a civic republican says that<\/p>\n

good government rests on active, engaged citizens—and civic engagement is<\/p>\n

inherently good. Social studies teachers are in the business of making good citizens,<\/p>\n

yet they are instinctively philosophical liberals. The tension or irony is not<\/p>\n

lost on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m just back from Chestertown, MD (a really nice colonial town where George Washington slept a lot). I was there to teach some elementary-through-high-school teachers about classical liberalism versus civic republicanism. The teachers are folks who use the "We the People Program" produced by the Center for Civic Education; this is their state summer institute. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}