The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher EducationIn his sequel to ProfScam, Sykes traces the decline of college curricula and shows how students and their parents are paying more money for less education. Sykes also examines the extreme politicization of the American campus and argues that this environment is producing hollow men and women with no more than a brief expose to the great books and ideas of Western civilization. |
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... Books was ignored , while the focus of the attack was turned on their authors - now dismissed as dead , white , Western males . It was a startling triumph for unreason ; especially ominous because this savaging of the humanities ...
... Books was ignored , while the focus of the attack was turned on their authors - now dismissed as dead , white , Western males . It was a startling triumph for unreason ; especially ominous because this savaging of the humanities ...
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... books , pictures and music . ' 99 The point of the course was to make the students realize that the Great Books spoke to them not as would - be specialists in history , or literature , or philosophy , but as individuals . Columbia ...
... books , pictures and music . ' 99 The point of the course was to make the students realize that the Great Books spoke to them not as would - be specialists in history , or literature , or philosophy , but as individuals . Columbia ...
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... Books component , the proposal was also cutting it free from the curriculum - creating a sort of academic limbo where the books might be read , but not discussed . The proposal made the free - floating nature of the reading proposal ...
... Books component , the proposal was also cutting it free from the curriculum - creating a sort of academic limbo where the books might be read , but not discussed . The proposal made the free - floating nature of the reading proposal ...
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