Splendor of heart
Subtitle: Walter Jackson Bate and the teaching of literature
By: by Robert D. Richardson
Publisher: David R. Godine, Publisher
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Jaffrey, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9781567924756
Subjects: Literature teachers; Harvard University; Biography; History
Description: "Walter Jackson Bate, the legendary Harvard professor, was far more than a celebrated and decorated biographer; he was an inspired teacher. And books about great teachers are rare. Here Robert Richardson, himself a distinguished teacher and biographer, takes the reader back to the Harvard of the fifties when men like Bate could hold a classroom of undergraduates enthralled by making literature seem 'achingly human, and real, and important.' Above all, Bate instilled in his students the heterodox notion that learning itself means nothing unless it leads to action, that simply understanding the text is a dead end unless the words affect and change behavior"--Page 2 of dust jacket.