The Journal of Educational Thought promotes speculative, critical, and historical research concerning the theory and practice of education in a variety of areas including administration, comparative ...

Macmurray provides a conceptual and personal reference point around which we can locate a tradition of social humanism that unfolds from the British idealists to the communitarians. Some communitarian ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In Philip Bump’s March 13 online column, “A quarter-century ago, we ...

A short-but-gushing profile of Susan Rice appeared in the New York Times this weekend. The piece, written by Mark Landler and titled, “Thrust Into Nonstop Turmoil, an Obama Adviser Counsels Pragmatism ...

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” George Carlin Source: Dustbin Baby/Wikipedia Commons It’s all too easy to miss the intimate connection between cynicism and idealism. And ...

In a private audience with current american rhodes scholars at Oxford University last May, President Clinton urged us to battle the cynicism that threatens the American political system (not to ...

The past few years haven't been kind to foreign policy idealism--the belief that when authoritarian states mistreat their own people, it is a matter of concern for all of us. We idealists can largely ...

The apartment where I work overlooks a small, alternative high school in Boulder, Colorado. I look out onto the football field and see a young woman flip her hair to the side. Even her roots shine.

Last month, the many articles and social media views that came out in the wake of Amit Masurkar’s Newton had one thing in common: they dwelled on the idealism of the film’s eponymous hero. Some ...