Democratizing the Great Books

Freedom and Citizenship's Casey Blake, Tamara Tweel, and Roosevelt Montás write: "Ownership of the democratic tradition is key to a civic education. [Political Philosopher Danielle] Allen understood that if students formed a personal relationship with a text, if they acquired it as a work that awakened their own civic intelligence, they would move from passive recipients of a heritage that they didn’t believe was theirs to active participants in shaping their country’s democratic future.

Read their full essay in Inside Higher Ed