The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
by:
Louis Menand (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393339161 (0393339165)
Publish date: December 6th 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
This is a must-read for anyone currently or formerly teaching in the humanities. Menand gives a history of general education and the evolution of how universities have come to decide what is "higher education;" as someone who has tried to form a teaching philosophy in the ever-changing landscape of...