Failing Liberty 101 : how we are leaving young Americans unprepared for citizenship in a free society / William Damon.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Hoover Institution Press publication ; 611.Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Description: xii, 148 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780817913649
  • 0817913645
  • 9780817913663
  • 0817913661
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.3/72 23
LOC classification:
  • HM681 .D34 2011
Contents:
Youth, virtue, and the future of liberty in American society -- The virtues gap in education today -- Abandoning the American tradition -- The American dream denied.
Summary: The most serious danger that the United States now faces, says the author, is that our country's future may end up in the hands of a citizenry incapable of sustaining the liberty that has been America's most precious legacy. In this book, he argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens, to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems: the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good, and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Youth, virtue, and the future of liberty in American society -- The virtues gap in education today -- Abandoning the American tradition -- The American dream denied.

The most serious danger that the United States now faces, says the author, is that our country's future may end up in the hands of a citizenry incapable of sustaining the liberty that has been America's most precious legacy. In this book, he argues that we are failing to prepare today's young people to be responsible American citizens, to the detriment of their life prospects and those of liberty in the United States of the future. He identifies the problems: the declines in civic purpose and patriotism, crises of faith, cynicism, self-absorption, ignorance, indifference to the common good, and shows that our disregard of civic and moral virtue as an educational priority is having a tangible effect on the attitudes, understanding, and behavior of large portions of the youth in our country today.

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