The Death of Learning (eBook)

How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It

John Agresto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
256 Seiten
Encounter Books (Verlag)
978-1-64177-269-3 (ISBN)

Infos

The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans dont see the point of them. Americans dont understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classicsor, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the literature of postcolonial stateswhen they can get an engineering or business degree.Even more concerning is when they read how Western civilization has become a termof reproach at so many supposedly thoughtful institutions; or how fanatical political correctness works hard to silence alternative viewpoints; or, more generally, how liberal studies have become scattered, narrow, and small. In this atmosphere, its hard to convince parents or their progeny that a liberal education is all that wonderful or that its even worthy of respect.Over sixty years ago, we were introduced to the idea of the two cultures in higher education that is, the growing rift in the academy between the humanities and the sciences, a rift wherein neither side understood the other, spoke to the other, or cared for the other. But this divide in the academy, real as it may be, is nothing compared to another great dividethe rift today between our common American culture and the culture of the academy itself.So, how can we rebuild the notion that a liberal education is truly of value, both to our students and to the nation? Our highest hopes may be not to restore the liberal arts to what they looked like fifty or a hundred years ago but to ask ourselves what a true contemporaryAmericanliberal education at its best might look like.Remedying this situation will involve knowing clearly where we wish to go and then understanding how we might get there. For those objectives, this book is meant to be the beginning.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: American higher education • Humanities • individual progress • Multiculturalism • stigmatization of the ordinary • the common good • the liberal arts
• ISBN-10: 1-64177-269-7 / 1641772697
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64177-269-3 / 9781641772693