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<p>Throughout most of the history of Western civilization, Christianity and Classical ideals played a dominant part in education. In most western countries, however, this is no longer the case. In modern pluralist Democracies, church influence struggles with pervasive influences from elsewhere for the hearts and minds of the public. Educational policy remains, however, an instrument to be used by major power groups, and in many countries has become, to a greater or lesser extent, an active or unwitting accomplice in furthering acquisitiveness and the accumulation of material advantage.</p>

Author

Pádraig Hogan

Publisher

International Scholars Publishers; Columba Press; International Scholars Publications

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781856071536

Subjects

Education, History, Philosophy