Killing the Spirit
by By Smith, Page
Category: Education , Higher

In contrast to the neo-conservative critique of academic leftists (see LA227), Smith, author of the eight-volume  A People's history of the United States , goes for the right target the institution, not the individual. The problems: academic fundamentalism; the flight from teaching due to tenure requirements; the worthlessness of most research and the mediocrity of most monographs; the narrowing of the disciplines; the dominance of the "scientific" approach dispassionate, distant, objective. No bibliography. (RC) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.