Left and Right

On Moral Education

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Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States. Within libertarian ranks, an unlimited diversity of viewpoint prevails, ranging from rigorous traditionalists to ultra-progressives. Among the numerous Libertarians in the Los Angeles area, a controversy is now raging between the Cardin and Montessori methods of education. We believe that the views of Herbert Spencer, the great 19th century English social philosopher, can provide a much-needed but totally neglected contribution toward a rational solution to many of these disputes, a solution grounded on education in cause-and-effect.

This article is condensed from the chapter on “Moral Education” in Herbert Spencer’sEducation: Intellectual, Moral and Physical (A. L. Burt Company, n.d.).

 

Volume 2, Number 2; Spring 1966

 

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Spencer, Herbert. “On Moral Education” Left and Right 2, No. 2 (Spring 1966): 73-84.

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