Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education (Hardcover)

Mark Edmundson

ISBN 10: 162040107X / ISBN 13: 9781620401071

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, New York, 2013

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Hardcover. Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives. 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. With prose exacting yet expansive, tough-minded yet optimistic, Edmundson argues forcefully that the liberal arts are more important today than ever. Why Teach? offers Edmundson's collected writings on the subject, including several pieces that are new and previously unpublished. What they show, collectively, is that higher learning is not some staid, old notion but a necessary remedy for our troubled times. Why Teach? is brimming with the wisdom and inspiration that make learning possible. In this collection of essays, some of which have run in "Harper's" and "The New York Times, " one of the country's great professors reminds readers that there is more to education than greater productivity. With an exacting optimism that never feels hokey or clich, Edmundson argues forcefully that the liberal arts are more important today than ever. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, New York
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 162040107X
• ISBN 13: 9781620401071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Mark Edmundson's essays reclaim college not as the province of high-priced tuition, career training, and interactive online courses, but as the place where serious people go to broaden their minds and learn to live the rest of their lives.
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. With prose exacting yet expansive, tough-minded yet optimistic, Edmundson argues forcefully that the liberal arts are more important today than ever.
Why Teach? offers Edmundson's collected writings on the subject, including several pieces that are new and previously unpublished. What they show, collectively, is that higher learning is not some staid, old notion but a necessary remedy for our troubled times. Why Teach? is brimming with the wisdom and inspiration that make learning possible.

About the Author

Mark Edmundson teaches at the University of Virginia, where he is university professor. A prizewinning scholar, he is the author of Why Write?, Why Teach?, Why Read?, Teacher, The Death of Sigmund Freud, and The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New Republic,the New York Times Magazine, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Nation, the American Scholar, Raritan and Harper's. He lives in Batesville, Virginia.