Powers of the Mind: The Reinvention of Liberal Learning in America
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It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0226475530
ISBN13:9780226475530
Release Date:November 2006
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
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Chicago is still at it
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
Donald Levine, veteran of general education triumphs and tragedies at the University of Chicago, offers a poignant history and a marial-arts-informed proposal for the future. The well-known progenitors of Chicago's radical reforms in liberal arts education (John Dewey, Robert Maynard Hutchins, Richard McKeon--"The Professor" in Pirsig's _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_) are joined here by other heroes--Joe Schwab, Robert Redfield, William McNeil. Levine himself offers an updated form of their discipline for the new century: anyone interested in the future of high-minded higher education in this country, and particularly in rooting that education in a well-understood tradition, ought to read it.
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