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1. Introduction -- 2. The Crisis In Canadian Education -- The Public Decline In Confidence -- The Curriculum Under Siege -- 3. The Assault On Education -- New Directions: Destreaming, Transition Years, Learning Outcomes -- The Link To The Universities -- 4. Liberal Education And The Modern World -- Why Return To The Classics? -- Plato's Education Of The Soul: Thumos, Eros, And The Dialectic Of Speech -- Aristotle: Civic Paideia As A Window On The World -- Augustine: Will, Grace, And The Dynamics Of Hope -- Descartes And Vico: The Sundering Of Mathematics And Poetry And The Transition To Modernity -- Political Modernity And The Enlightenment -- 5. Liberal Education And The Fragmentation Of Modernity -- The Longing For Wholeness And The End Of History -- A Nietzschean Interlude -- 6. Liberal Education And The Canadian Polity -- The Canadian Founding -- The Founding Educators -- 7. Conclusion. Peter C. Emberley And Waller R. Newell. Includes Bibliographical References P. [169]-183) And Index.