Save the world on your own time
What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? to bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social skills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens? In [the book] Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralist…
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What should be the role of our institutions of higher education? To promote good moral character? to bring an end to racism, sexism, economic oppression, and other social skills? To foster diversity and democracy and produce responsible citizens?
In [the book] Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable these goals might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. When teachers offer themselves as moralists, political activists, or agents of social change rather than as credentialed experts in a particular subject and the methods used to analyze it, they abdicate their true purpose. And yet professors now routinely bring their political views into the classroom and seek to influence the political view of their students. Those who do this will often invoke academic freedom, but Fish suggests that academic freedom, correctly understood, is the freedom to do the academic job, not the freedom to do any job that the professor so chooses. [The book] is certain to spark fresh debate - and to incense both liberals and conservatives alike - about the true purpose of higher education in America. [publisher's note]
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- Publication Date:2012
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
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Originally published: 2008
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- Description:189 s
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- ISBN:9780195369021, 0195369025, 9780199892976, 0199892970
- oclc:ocn816022422
- Dewey Decimal:378.12
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