Why teach?
Subtitle: in defense of a real education
By: Mark Edmundson
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781620401071
Subjects: Teaching; Higher Education; Aims and objectives
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: Liberal arts & lite entertainment; title: Dwelling in possibilities; title: Who are you and what are you doing here? A word to the incoming class; title: Do sports build character?; title: Glorious failure : 2005 convocation address, University of Virginia; title: The globalists; title: The corporate city and the scholarly enclave; title: The English major; title: My first intellectual; title: The Pink Floyd night school; title: A word to the new humanities professor; title: Against readings; title: Narcissus regards his book : the common reader now; title: The uncoolness of good teachers; title: Teaching the truths; title: Under the sign of Satan : Blake in the corporate university.