Education without impact : how our universities fail the young / George H. Douglas.

Even though it is easy to expect too much from our institutions of higher learning, there is still reason for concern that American colleges and universities have followed paths that are at cross-purposes with the spirit of liberal education.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Douglas, George H., 1934-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Carol Pub. Group, ℗♭1992.
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505 0 |a pt. I. Higher Education: The Question of Style. 1. Higher Education: Trouble at the Heart's Core. 2. Two Cheers for the Old-Style College. 3. The Double Wound. 4. The Poisons of the Ph. D. Octopus. 5. The Lost Essence of Undergraduate Education -- pt. II. Passion Denied: The Professor and the System. 6. Professors Under Fire. 7. How Professors Weaken the Bonds to the Shared Culture. 8. The New Druids and the Poisoning of the Humanities. 9. The Indifference of the Ivory Lab. 10. Do They Publish or Perish? -- pt. III. The Poisoned Well of Learning. 11. Defreighting the Curriculum: The Legacy of the Sixties. 12. Lost in the Wilderness: The Undergraduate Course Today. 13. A Fallen Giant of the Curriculum: Freshman English. 14. Wars Over "the Canon" 15. The Penumbra of Liberal Education -- pt. IV. Student Life in an Impoverished Community. 16. Toward a Rejuvenation of College Life. 17. Students: The Lively Lonely Crowd. 18. In Loco Parentis -- Then What? 19. Old Wine in New Bottles. 
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