Killing the Spirit: Higher Education in AmericaIn contrast to the neo-conservative critique of academic leftists (see LA227), Smith, author of the eight-volume A People's history of the United States, goes for the right target--the institution, not the individual. The problems: academic fundamentalism; the flight from teaching due to tenure requirements; the worthlessness of most research and the mediocrity of most monographs; the narrowing of the disciplines; the dominance of the "scientific" approach--dispassionate, distant, objective. No bibliography. (RC) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Mapping the Desert I | 1 |
The Beginning | 22 |
The New Republic | 37 |
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