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Direct linkDelbanco, Andrew – Princeton University Press, 2023
As the commercialization of American higher education accelerates, more and more students are coming to college with the narrow aim of obtaining a preprofessional credential. The traditional four-year college experience--an exploratory time for students to discover their passions and test ideas and values with the help of teachers and peers--is in…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Commercialization, Neoliberalism, Employment Qualifications
Delbanco, Andrew – 1997
By examining the works of classic American authors, this book presents the idea that individual human beings can break free of the structures of thought into which they are born and that, by reimagining the world, can change it. In chapters on Herman Melville, Henry David Thoreau, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham…
Descriptors: Classics (Literature), Cultural Context, Higher Education, Language Role
