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Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education
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Abstract: 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 arts are more important today than ever.
Why Teach? offers Edmundson's collected writings on the subject, including several pieces that are new and previously unpublished. What they show, collectively, is that higher learning is not some staid, old notion but a necessary remedy for our troubled times. Why Teach? is brimming with the wisdom and inspiration that make learning possible. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Introduction
The Shift
ch. 1 Liberal Arts & Lite Entertainment (1997)
ch. 2 Dwelling in Possibilities (2008)
Fellow Students
ch. 3 Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
A Word to the Incoming Class
ch. 4 Do Sports Build Character?
ch. 5 Glorious Failture
2005 Convocation Address, University of Virginia
ch. 6 The Globalists
ch. 7 The Corporate City and the Scholarly Enclave
ch. 8 The English Major
ch. 9 My First Intellectual
ch. 10 The Pink Floyd Night School
Fellow Teachers
ch. 11 A Word to the New Humanities Professor
ch. 12 Against Readings
ch. 13 Narcissus Regards His Book/The Common Reader Now
ch. 14 The Uncoolness of Good Teachers
ch. 15 Teaching the Truths
ch. 16 Under the Sign of Saturn: Blake in the Corporate University
Click Here for Book Review
Abstract: 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 arts are more important today than ever.
Why Teach? offers Edmundson's collected writings on the subject, including several pieces that are new and previously unpublished. What they show, collectively, is that higher learning is not some staid, old notion but a necessary remedy for our troubled times. Why Teach? is brimming with the wisdom and inspiration that make learning possible. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Introduction
The Shift
ch. 1 Liberal Arts & Lite Entertainment (1997)
ch. 2 Dwelling in Possibilities (2008)
Fellow Students
ch. 3 Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?
A Word to the Incoming Class
ch. 4 Do Sports Build Character?
ch. 5 Glorious Failture
2005 Convocation Address, University of Virginia
ch. 6 The Globalists
ch. 7 The Corporate City and the Scholarly Enclave
ch. 8 The English Major
ch. 9 My First Intellectual
ch. 10 The Pink Floyd Night School
Fellow Teachers
ch. 11 A Word to the New Humanities Professor
ch. 12 Against Readings
ch. 13 Narcissus Regards His Book/The Common Reader Now
ch. 14 The Uncoolness of Good Teachers
ch. 15 Teaching the Truths
ch. 16 Under the Sign of Saturn: Blake in the Corporate University