Powers of the mind : the reinvention of liberal learning in America / Donald N. Levine.
"It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine e...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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Summary: | "It is one thing to lament the financial pressures put on universities, quite another to face up to the poverty of resources for thinking about what universities should do when they purport to offer a liberal education. In Powers of the Mind, former University of Chicago dean Donald N. Levine enriches those resources by proposing fresh ways to think about liberal learning with ideas more suited to our times."--Jacket. |
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Physical Description: | xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index. |
ISBN: | 0226475530 9780226475530 9780226475547 0226475549 |