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Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education

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A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience, which makes it an effective and meaningful form of education. Dismissing notions that classical education is elitist and irrelevant, Hicks argues that the classical tradition can meet the needs of our increasingly technological society as well as serve as a feasible model for mass education.
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    September 30, 1999
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    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
  7. Print length
    182 pages
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David V. Hicks is President of the Darlington School in Rome, Ga.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Press of America (September 30, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0761814671
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0761814672
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.41 x 9 inches
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  • Laura G
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very rich, important little volume in the education world
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2024
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    I don't hesitate to say that this book changed my life. It helped me fall deeper in love with classical education and set me off on a personal path that has led to so much depth a beauty that it's hard to overstate the impact of it.

    I'll forever be grateful for finding my way to it and I always look forward to reading it again every couple of years or so. Happy to have a fresh new printing of it since my old one is covered with notes.
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  • SusieQ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Insight!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2016
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    Excellent book. It is brilliant, actually. Philosophers like Hicks can't exist anymore, with the current indoctrination (Marxist/Common Core) system where "critically thinking" is not only prevented and punished, it is erased (on purpose, as Fichte dreamed--google "snow is black" and the elimination of Free Will (1810)). We need to go back to pre-Dewey. Actually, pre-Mann to get back to the Minds of a Tesla or Newton and back to Classical Christian Curricula---the only one capable of producing the Age of Reason and Modern Science and the US Constitution of Free Will and Individualism. Tribal Minds (collective/socialist "group-thinkers" are the Norm---the US actually created true Freedom--as much as possible---Individualism vs. Collectivism/socialism/slavery mindset. (Either you embed critical thinking skills/tools or you program a "bot"--cog in the wheel for the corporations/slavery. You choose--Natural Family or artificial warped environments away from Reason/Real Life Mastery.
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  • Tennis Fiend
    5.0 out of 5 stars Consider what is occurring now.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
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    Norms and Nobility provides an insightful look into education from a perspective which runs counter to what is occurring now (NCLB and Race to the Top) in education, even though the book was written twenty years ago. Hicks correctly depicts faulty trends in education, and his voice sounds a warning similar to what you might read about what is occurring in medicine today. The book is not a quick read; it requires concentration and thought. But the person who sticks with it will find his view of education expanded, if not changed.
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  • Johnnie Seago
    4.0 out of 5 stars High price and high quality
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
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    This is the best book on classical education EVER. I wish someone would republish so I could afford to buy a box for my staff. Just too expensive for that!
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  • Winston Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars A profound critique and a hopeful vision
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
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    This book offers the most profound critique of contemporary education I have read, and it also offers the most hopeful vision for moving forward. That vision is classical studies, understood in democratic and Christian ways. What would be helpful now would be a thousand brief articles and essays introducing its many insights to a broader audience.
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  • Charles Scribner
    5.0 out of 5 stars The Gold Standard🏆
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2025
    When "Norms & Nobility" first appeared in 1981 the halls of both higher and lower education were not yet so crowded with competing versions of political correctness and cancel culture. Yet academe was already marching to the drummer of a utilitarian, value-free program of study, the antithesis of what Hicks here calls for us to rediscover: the ancient Greek concept of "paideia"-- education as a purposeful instilling of knowledge that fosters virtue. Its Latin translation was "humanitas," the source of "humanistic studies" or the "humanities."
    This short but priceless classic, now in its fourth release over four decades, bears witness to that ideal. It has lasted. It soars far above the shifting winds of educational fashions and fads. It endures. It offers hope to a new generation of teachers and students to make a difference, to get it right.
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  • pnwmomma
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I thought...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2023
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    We classically Charlotte Mason homeschool our kids and I listen to a lot of podcasts that refer to David Hicks' Norms & Nobility so I deliberated in purchasing because you can't preview the book on Amazon and it's expensive. It's incredibly expensive for this little thin book however, it's very dense academic writing. I have not read it. I have skimmed chapters here and there to see if I will actually read it. If, like me, you are curious, save your $60 unless you love reading highly academic work, and listen to Schole Sisters podcast, The New Mason Jar by Cindy Rollins, and The Literary Life podcast with Angelina Stanford, Cindy Rollins and Thomas Banks; read Karen Glass' Consider This, On Narration, and In Vital Harmony; and especially read the original homeschooling series by Charlotte Mason which is dense but really beautifully written and the only guide you need to classically homeschool your children.
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  • William Bryant
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2014
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    Second best book on education I've ever read. Best is Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis.
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