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Universities and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Global Developments
Unformatted Document Text:  Universities and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Global Developments Ira Harkavy University of Pennsylvania Paper presented to session on Education for Democratic Citizenship: Responsibilities and impact of Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association 3 September 2005 It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itselfis not rightly placed.Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620) The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it.Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845-1846) In conception, at least, democracy approaches most nearly the ideal of all social organization; that in which the individual and the society are organic to each other. John Dewey, The Ethics of Democracy (1888) Democracy has been given a mission to the world, and it is of no uncertain character. I wish to show that the university is the prophet of this democracy, as well as its priest and its philosopher; that in other words, the university is the Messiah of the democracy, its to-be-

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Universities and Education for Democratic Citizenship:
Global Developments
Ira Harkavy
University of Pennsylvania
Paper presented to session on Education for Democratic Citizenship:
Responsibilities and impact of Colleges and Universities
Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association
3 September 2005
It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself
is not rightly placed.
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum (1620)
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in
various ways; the point is to change it.
Karl Marx, Theses on Feuerbach (1845-1846)
In conception, at least, democracy approaches most nearly the
ideal of all social organization; that in which the individual and
the society are organic to each other.
John Dewey, The Ethics of Democracy (1888)
Democracy has been given a mission to the world, and it is
of no uncertain character. I wish to show that the
university is the prophet of this democracy, as well as its
priest and its philosopher; that in other words, the
university is the Messiah of the democracy, its to-be-


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