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标题：Jerry Kirkpatrick’s Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism: Educational Theory for a Free Market in Education
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作者：David Gordon
期刊名称：Reason Papers : A Journal of Interdisciplinary Normative Studies
印刷版ISSN：0363-1893
出版年度：2008
卷号：30
页码：129-33
出版社：Reason Papers
摘要：Jerry Kirkpatrick is an economist, specializing in international business and marketing, but his interests extend much farther. His earlier book, In Defense of Advertising, was not confined to economics but presented a penetrating philosophical analysis of his chosen subject as well. In Montessori, Dewey, and Capitalism, Kirkpatrick continues his philosophical explorations. He does so in order to answer a question that has rarely been asked. The topic he considers arises this way: Many people defend laissez-faire capitalism and accordingly think that the government should play no role in education. Few have gone on to ask: What would education be like in a free society. This is precisely Kirkpatrick's question. In answering it, he is guided by the condition that in a free society, education should mirror the basic principle of the society and be noncoercive. Additionally, he thinks that since the free market tends to supply goods efficiently, certainly more efficiently than the state does, the answer to his question can be found by endeavoring to determine what type of education enables students to learn best. It is this that one can expect the free market to supply