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008			130211s2013 nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a2013000853
020			_a162040107X
020			_a9781620401071
035			_a(OCoLC)827852440
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dGK8 _dOCLCO _dDF9 _dYDXCP _dWIQ _dYHM _dLEB _dNFG
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043			_an-us---
049			_aNFGR
092			_a378.73 _bE24
100	1		_aEdmundson, Mark, _d1952- _9234011
245	1	0	_aWhy teach? : _bin defense of a real education / _cMark Edmundson.
250			_aFirst U.S. edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bBloomsbury, _c2013.
300			_axiv, 222 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aLiberal 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.
520			_aPresents 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.
650		0	_aEducation, Higher _xAims and objectives _zUnited States. _9195851
650		0	_aTeaching _zUnited States. _9100122
994			_aC0 _bNFG
998			_a007396363
942			_cBOOK _06
999			_c154944 _d154944