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The commonwealth of learning

Henry Steele Commager c1968 © Mary Commager
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Series
  • The Works of Henry Steele Commager
ISBN(s)
  • 9780060108267 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Methods/Theory
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword (page ix)
  • PART I. The School
    • 1. The American High School (page 3)
    • 2. How Far Should Schooling Go? (page 19)
    • 3. From Normal School to University: Changing Tasks of Teacher Education (page 39)
    • 4. Teaching History in the High Schools (page 51)
    • 5. On the Evils of a Foreign Education (page 63)
    • 6. When Majors Wrote for Minors: Children's Literature in America (page 69)
    • 7. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America (page 82)
    • 8. The McGuffeys and Their Readers (page 93)
    • 9. A Plea for Discrimination (page 103)
  • PART II. The University
    • 1. The American Scholar Revisited (page 113)
    • 2. The Emancipation of the College (page 130)
    • 3. The Problem Is Brains, Not Bricks (page 141)
    • 4. The Urban University, or Is Ivy Necessary? (page 149)
    • 5. Is Tuition Ever Justified? (page 160)
    • 6. Give the Games Back to the Students (page 171)
    • 7. The Two Cultures: the Inductive and the Deductive (page 179)
    • 8. The University and the Community of Learning (page 192)
  • PART III. Aspects of Academic Freedom
    • 1. Is Freedom an Academic Question? (page 209)
    • 2. The Nature of Academic Freedom (page 218)
    • 3. Halfway to Nineteen Eighty-four (page 227)
    • 4. Science, Learning, and the Claims of Nationalism (page 236)
    • 5. Television: Failure and Potentiality (page 252)
    • 6. Student Recruitment and University Responsibility (page 268)
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