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What It Was, Is, and Should Be

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Used Very Good(1 Copy): Princeton. 2012. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good In Dustjacket. 240 pages. March 2012. hardcover. 9780691130736. keywords: Education Current Affairs. inventory # 23620. A re-centering of the discussion of college and the college experience as seen through the eyes of a cultural historian that is not at all elitist, and an examiniation of 'college' as a distinctly American institution. The author suggests that the importance of the four-year liberal arts education has been lost in the rush to train students for careers. The spiritual center of this book argues that college teaches one to enjoy life. FROM THE PUBLISHER-THE STRENGTHS AND FAILURES OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, AND WHY LIBERAL EDUCATION STILL MATTERS. This terrific book is wonderfully direct and engaging, and full of well-chosen historical examples and relevant quotations. Delbanco's love of learning comes through clearly. He eloquently articulates and defends a certain ideal conception of the undergraduate experience and rightly makes us worry about the prospects for preserving it. ' Michael McPherson, The Spencer Foundation. As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experiencean exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peersis in danger of becoming a thing of the past. In College, prominent cultural critic Andrew Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich. In arguing for what a true college education should be, he demonstrates why making it available to as many young people as possible remains central to America's democratic promise. In a brisk and vivid historical narrative, Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of broadly humanistic education for all. Acknowledging the serious financial, intellectual, and ethical challenges that all colleges face today, Delbanco considers what is at stake in the urgent effort to protect these venerable institutions for future generations. The special quality of this book stems from its firm grounding in the history of higher education. The result is a work that leads us to look with suspicion on claims that our colleges are deteriorating, challenges us to think anew about other trends that are often viewed as progress, and reminds us of the subtler aims achieved by teaching at its best. '-Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University. Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His many books include Melville: His World and Work (Vintage), which won the Lionel Trilling Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in biography.

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As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience is in danger of becoming a thing of the past. Prominent cultural critic Delbanco offers a trenchant defense of such an education, and warns that it is becoming a privilege reserved for the relatively rich.

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Media: Hardcover Book, 229 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Edition: Unknown

ISBN-10: 0691130736

Publication Date: Mar. 20th, 2012

ISBN-13: 9780691130736

Dimensions: 5.79 x 8.70 x 0.85 inches

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