The Freedom to Be

In 1929 James Truslow Adams in his “To ‘Be’ or To ‘Do’: A Note on American Education” made a stinging critique of the state of American education at that time: It was driven, he said, a by a desire for a utilitarian “doing” in business and the label of a BA rather than for the purpose of “being” in...

The International Journal of Humanities Education

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