Government by Influence and Other Addresses (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Elmer Ellsworth Brown

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331021529 ISBN 13: 9781331021520

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how influence, not force, shapes modern government and education. This book argues that the power of governance grows through influence—fostering self-government and cooperative effort—rather than relying on force alone. It traces ideas from Washington’s remark on influence to practical reforms in schools, universities, and public policy.

In these pages, the author links education, democracy, and public life, showing how schools and universities act as organized, lasting forces in government. It examines how modern states seek to replace external coercion with internal self-control, and how moral education, juvenile reform, and civil administration fit into a broader system of influence.

• Understand how government aims to promote local and individual self-government through education.


• See how elementary and higher education connect to democratic life and public policy.


• Learn why education is viewed as a tool to replace punishment with moral development and self-discipline.


• Explore historical examples, from policy conferences to juvenile courts, that illustrate government by influence in action.

Ideal for readers of political history, education policy, and the evolution of democracy in public life.

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Excerpt from Government by Influence and Other Addresses

Ing the first three years of my service in the Bureau of Education. Those of the number which have already appeared in print have been scattered through various publications, some of them of limited circulation, and it is safe to assume that there are not a dozen per sons any one Of Whom has seen more than two or three of the whole collection. For permis sion to reprint in this form, acknowledgment is made to the publishers of those periodicals in which certain of the addresses were first pub lished. The names of publications in which any of them have hitherto appeared are mentioned under their several titles. Alterations have been freely made in the text and considerable portions have been rewritten for this volume. Occasional repetitions have, however, been pur.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331021529
• ISBN 13: 9781331021520
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259