Edmundson Mark

Why Teach?  An interesting question, that.  Mark Edmundson asks that: Why Teach?  In Defense of a Real Education.  In a curious way, this was a rather thought-provoking book.  It’s a collection of essays which, truth be told, meander all over the place, united only by the fact that they have something to do with education.  The book is best described as a cri de coeur.  Edmundson looks out and sees a sterile corporatized (a favorite … [Read more...] about Corporations, Marxists, and the Academy