| Description |
xii, 222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Editor's preface -- First Things: -- 1: Schooling no mystery : teacher in 1980 America: what he found -- 2: Alphabet equals the wheel: the centrality of reading -- 3: Middlemarch is--?: reason to de-test the schools -- 4: Textbook into scrapbook: television and the child-but not what you think -- 5: Ideas versus notions: where the educational nonsense comes from -- Curriculum: -- Subjects dead or alive: history is past and present life -- 7: Math and science are liberal arts: the urge to be pre-posterous -- 8: Art of making teachers: occupational disease: verbal inflation -- 9: Word: written, printed, spoken: give her a book? she has a book -- 10: Western civ or Western sieve?: of what use the classics today? -- Advanced Work: -- 11: Why go to college?: the university as the beloved republic -- 12: Scholarship at gunpoint: "doing research"-should the sport be regulated? -- 13: Campus martius-field of the god of war : back to the middle ages -- 14: Lost leader: an American commencement -- 15: 57 elites: the educated mind -- Index of subjects. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Teaching.
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Learning.
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| Added Author |
Philipson, Morris, 1926-2011.
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| ISBN |
0226038467 alkaline paper $24.95 |
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