The Knowledge most worth having.
By: Edited by Wayne C. Booth.
Contributors: Booth, Wayne C., ed.; University of Chicago. College.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
Subjects: Education.
Notes: "A publication of the seventy-fifth anniversary year of the University of Chicago."
"Papers ... delivered at a five-day liberal arts conference sponsored by the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago."
Table of contents: title: Is there any knowledge that a man must have? By W. C. Booth.; title: Returning coals to Newcastle, by F. C. Ward.; title: The instruments of mental production, by N. Frye.; title: A transatlantic view of "what knowledge is worth having", by J. Cockcroft.; title: Undergraduates and the scientific enterprise, by J. A. Simpson.; title: Diversity, by J. R. Platt.; title: Education and the contemporary woman, by A. F. Scott.; title: Platonic education, by J. M. Redfield.; title: The battle of the books, by R. McKeon.; title: The role of a liberal arts college within a university, by E. H. Levi.