Demokracja liberalna i jej wpływ na edukację amerykańską
Liberal Democracy and its Influence on the American Education

Summary/Abstract: In spite that the twentieth-century American pedagogy carries along the optimistic faith in man and his abilities, this faith from times of the Enlightenment began to transform into the unhealthy haughtiness and hubris in the face of the objectively existing order of nature. The Authoress claims that some important factor exerted its significant influence on the character of the American mentality. It is the political system which governs American country – liberal democracy which is the product of the Enlightenment and its epoch. In the face of the critical situation of American educational system the special responsibility rests on the university. It exists in order to “prevent this democratic blindness or to heal it”. Accordingly it should not make for the public opinion, but must be based on philosophy, theology and literary classics, where from it can draw tools to fight with dogmatism. It will permit the university to avoid attitudes characteristic in democratic system, which are popularity and “being up-to-date”.

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