Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher EducationTransaction Publishers - 249 Seiten "...a compelling synthesis that clears away much of the intellectual clutter in strategic planning and offers a creative, if somewhat elitist, theory that fuses the strengths of the university with the context and challenges of the 21st century."--Choice "The goal of higher education as described by Allen and Allen is based on a curriculum of study for a proficient humanity characterized by excellence in judgement.... The authors have presented a refreshing treatise on the values of education, respect for working toward a more civilized society, acknowledgement of human diginity and the need for more moral and fair treatment within our society. Higher education is positioned to contribute to these lofty ideals and is described very well in this book."--Alton L. Taylor, University of Virginia |
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... their glories.14 Nor can such moments be so generally enjoyed without healthy doses of redundancy . For it takes different voices parsing Shakespeare to scare up meaningful discussion of the true bearings of Introduction 9.
... discussion of the true bearings of his work . Learners must confront choices at every step of their inquiry in order to feel seriously the challenge of skepticism . Where one seminar in Shakespeare is good , two will always be better ...
... discussion in these terms ( even in equipment dependent technological areas of research and study ) . But that is just another way to say that research universities must avoid the category error that holds that whatever a university ...
... discuss the acquisition of charac- ter and judgment that would strengthen the youth's confidence in his own decisions . The cultivation of good habits of decision on sound moral and religious grounds is the single most important gift ...
... discussion of how to re- store an idea of the university . Work to Live , or Live to Work ? John Kenneth Galbraith had it right when he predicted that . at the end of the twentieth century , universities would become what banks were at ...
Inhalt
17 | |
Excellence in Judgment | 55 |
Access to Higher Education | 79 |
Evaluating Higher Education Waiting for Change | 125 |
Managing Higher Education Lessons from Virginia | 149 |
Epilogue The Rhetoric of Higher Education | 181 |
Bibliography | 231 |
Index | 243 |
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