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Idealism and liberal education / James O. Freedman.
LIBRA LC1011 .F72 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, James O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Humanistic--United States.
- Education, Humanistic.
- United States.
- Idealism.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the content and character of liberal education, discusses the importance of letters and learning in forming his own life and values, and explores how the lessons and the habits of mind instilled by a liberal education can give direction and meaning to one's life. He offers a stirring defense of affirmative action in higher education. And he describes how, in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, liberal education helped him in the most human of desires - the yearning to make order and sense out of his experience.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0472106929
- OCLC:
- 33206469
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