With his customary wit and grace, Dr. Barzun contrasts the ritual of education with the lost art of teaching. Twenty-one chapters deal with three major issues: the practice of teaching, the subject matter to be taught, and the institutional and cultural aspects of teaching.
With his customary wit and grace, Dr. Barzun contrasts the ritual of education with the lost art of teaching. Twenty-one chapters deal with three majo...
The House of Intellect embraces: persons who consciously and methodically employ the mind, the forms and habits governing the activities in which the mind is so employed, and the conditions under which these people and activities exist.
The House of Intellect embraces: persons who consciously and methodically employ the mind, the forms and habits governing the activities in which t...
"This volume is a must for anyone interested in academic problems and will produce the emotion of recognition in those concerned, and the emotion of surprise in those outside the field."-Los Angeles Times "Professors Caplow and McGee have given scholarly respectability to what many a professor has long suspected: Competition in the academic marketplace is as severe as in the business world. Their book] might come to have the same function for the professor as Machiavelli's work had for ambitious princes."-Midwest Journal of Political ScienceThe Academic...
"This volume is a must for anyone interested in academic problems and will produce the emotion of recognition in those concerned, and the emotion o...
