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Book SynopsisThis book offers a clarion call, in the words of Franklin Roosevelt, to try something! And not just any something. A systematic, integrated, chronological, multi-disciplinary approach to reinvigorate the teaching of the liberal arts and put them back where they belongat the center of a student's educational experience. It does not pretend to offer a cure-all or a one-size-fits-all solution to everything that is ailing American higher education, or even secondary education. It does, however, offer a place to begin a discussion, to invite experimentation, and to initiate reform based on solid pedagogy and 2,500 years of time-tested wisdom in the human experience. As such it should be of interest to many people. Those in higher education serious about the crisis facing their institutions could benefit from taking up the gauntlet this volume throws down. For students and parents, the book raises alternatives and poses some hard questions that they should be asking not only as they consider
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “If I Could Do It All Over Again . . .”
Chapter 1: The Current Crisis in Higher Education
Chapter 2: The Cost of Doing Business
Chapter 3: What Should Be Common Sense about Education
Chapter 4: A Radical Proposal
Chapter 5: Addressing Objections to the Proposal
Chapter 6: The First Two Years of the Program: A Student’s Eye View
Chapter 7: To Graduation and Beyond: A Student’s Eye View Continued
Chapter 8: Beyond Platitudes: Remembering What It Is All About
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