Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education

Name: Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education
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ISBN: 9781620406427

ISBN-10: 162040642X

ISBN-13: 9781620406427

Edition: 2014

Authors: Mark Edmundson

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Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Edmundson has felt firsthand the pressure on colleges to churn out a productive, high-caliber workforce for the future. Yet in these essays, many of which have run in places such as Harper's and the New York Times, he reminds us that there is more to education than greater productivity. With prose exacting yet expansive, tough-minded yet optimistic, Edmundson argues forcefully that the liberal…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 10/9/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English