TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edmundson,Mark
TI  - Why teach?: in defense of a real education 
SN  - 162040107X
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Aims and objectives
KW  - United States
KW  - Teaching
N1  - Liberal arts & lite entertainment -- Dwelling in possibilities -- Who are you and what are you doing here? A word to the incoming class -- Do sports build character? -- Glorious failure : 2005 convocation address, University of Virginia -- The globalists -- The corporate city and the scholarly enclave -- The English major -- My first intellectual -- The Pink Floyd night school -- A word to the new humanities professor -- Against readings -- Narcissus regards his book : the common reader now -- The uncoolness of good teachers -- Teaching the truths -- Under the sign of Satan : Blake in the corporate university
N2  - Presents a collection of essays that explore a college education as a means through which serious-minded individuals broaden their minds and acquire life skills, arguing that higher learning is an essential remedy for today's problems
ER  -