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Why teach? : in defense of a real education / Mark Edmundson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edmundson, Mark, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education, Higher.
- Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.
- United States.
- Teaching--United States.
- Teaching.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 222 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of essays that explore a college education as a means through which serious-minded individuals broaden their minds and acquire life skills, arguing that higher learning is an essential remedy for today's problems.
- Contents:
- Liberal arts & lite entertainment
- Dwelling in possibilities
- Who are you and what are you doing here? A word to the incoming class
- Do sports build character?
- Glorious failure : 2005 convocation address, University of Virginia
- The globalists
- The corporate city and the scholarly enclave
- The English major
- My first intellectual
- The Pink Floyd night school
- A word to the new humanities professor
- Against readings
- Narcissus regards his book : the common reader now
- The uncoolness of good teachers
- Teaching the truths
- Under the sign of Satan : Blake in the corporate university.
- ISBN:
- 9781620401071
- 162040107X
- OCLC:
- 827852440
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