The Third century : twenty-six prominent Americans speculate on the educational future / with an introductory essay by Nathan Glazer.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States.

Education.

United States.

Physical Description:

196 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[New Rochelle, N.Y.] : Change Magazine Press, [1977]

Contents:

Introduction: The business of the future / Nathan Glazer

1. The legacy of the present: Small steps to a larger vision / David Riesman

A disease with a patient / Samuel B. Gould

En attendant 2000 / Clark Kerr

2. Trends and aberrations: Lessening influence and the search for purpose / Lewis B. Mayhew

On the road to a learning society / Arthur M. Cohen

A clash of tangled forces / Alan Pifer

Money and other trifles / John D. Millett

Toward a new interdependence / Ernest L. Boyer

Autonomy on the line / Ralph K. Huitt

The view from the hill / Carl D. Perkins

3. Equality and excellence: Higher education and human equality / Howard R. Bowen

The question of access -and to what / Claiborne Pell

The interplay of mass and class / Harold Howe II

For all and for each / K. Patricia Cross

4. In pursuit of the millennium: Taking the helm / Frank Newman

The promise of lifelong learning / Edmund J. Gleazer, Jr.

Consensus and preservation / Frederic W. Ness

Three reforms / Paul C. Reinert

The tyranny of the urgent / Albert Quie

A finer order, a more general happiness / Stephen K. Bailey

Who runs the show? / George W. Bonham

5. The third century: A confederacy of concerns / Allan W. Ostar

Beyond the cloister / Morris T. Keeton

Notes from a diary / James A, Norton

Making prophecies of our goals / Theodore M. Hesburgh

6. Epilog: The rest was history / John R. Silber.

Local Notes:

Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.

ISBN:

0915390078 :

9780915390076

OCLC:

2774877