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The commonwealth of learning
Henry Steele Commager-
Frontmatter
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Foreword (page ix)
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PART I. The School
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1. The American High School (page 3)
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2. How Far Should Schooling Go? (page 19)
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3. From Normal School to University: Changing Tasks of Teacher Education (page 39)
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4. Teaching History in the High Schools (page 51)
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5. On the Evils of a Foreign Education (page 63)
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6. When Majors Wrote for Minors: Children's Literature in America (page 69)
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7. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America (page 82)
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8. The McGuffeys and Their Readers (page 93)
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9. A Plea for Discrimination (page 103)
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PART II. The University
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1. The American Scholar Revisited (page 113)
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2. The Emancipation of the College (page 130)
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3. The Problem Is Brains, Not Bricks (page 141)
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4. The Urban University, or Is Ivy Necessary? (page 149)
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5. Is Tuition Ever Justified? (page 160)
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6. Give the Games Back to the Students (page 171)
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7. The Two Cultures: the Inductive and the Deductive (page 179)
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8. The University and the Community of Learning (page 192)
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PART III. Aspects of Academic Freedom
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1. Is Freedom an Academic Question? (page 209)
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2. The Nature of Academic Freedom (page 218)
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3. Halfway to Nineteen Eighty-four (page 227)
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4. Science, Learning, and the Claims of Nationalism (page 236)
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5. Television: Failure and Potentiality (page 252)
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6. Student Recruitment and University Responsibility (page 268)
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Published: c1968
Publisher: Harper
- 9780060108267 (hardcover)