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100 1 $aEdmundson, Mark,$d1952-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhy teach? :$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
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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 $aEssays exploring college education as a means through which serious-minded individuals broaden their minds and acquire life skills, ultimately arguing that higher learning is an essential remedy for today's problems.
500 $a"A renowned professor of English at the University of Virginia, Edmundson has felt firsthand the pressure on colleges to churn out a productive, high-caliber workforce for the future. Yet in these essays, many of which have run in places such as Harper's and the New York Times, he reminds us that there is more to education than greater productivity." -- Publisher's description.
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