ACLS Humanities E-Book: The commonwealth of learning

The commonwealth of learning

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998.

Year: c1968.

Publisher: Harper & Row.

Publisher's Website

For full access to this item, please Login

table of contents

Frontmatter

Foreword

PART I. The School

1. The American High School

2. How Far Should Schooling Go?

3. From Normal School to University: Changing Tasks of Teacher Education

4. Teaching History in the High Schools

5. On the Evils of a Foreign Education

6. When Majors Wrote for Minors: Children's Literature in America

7. Noah Webster: Schoolmaster to America

8. The McGuffeys and Their Readers

9. A Plea for Discrimination

PART II. The University

1. The American Scholar Revisited

2. The Emancipation of the College

3. The Problem Is Brains, Not Bricks

4. The Urban University, or Is Ivy Necessary?

5. Is Tuition Ever Justified?

6. Give the Games Back to the Students

7. The Two Cultures: the Inductive and the Deductive

8. The University and the Community of Learning

PART III. Aspects of Academic Freedom

1. Is Freedom an Academic Question?

2. The Nature of Academic Freedom

3. Halfway to Nineteen Eighty-four

4. Science, Learning, and the Claims of Nationalism

5. Television: Failure and Potentiality

6. Student Recruitment and University Responsibility

reviews

No reviews available

catalog record

Title:

The commonwealth of learning : Henry Steele Commager.

Author:

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

Extent:

600dpi TIFF G4 page images

E-Distribution Information:

University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Permission must be received for any subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact info@hebook.org for more information.

Source Version:

The commonwealth of learning : Henry Steele Commager.
Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998
New York: Harper & Row, c1968.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.07342

Subject Headings:

• Education -- United States
• Teaching, Freedom of

Note:

• Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required

Encoding Description:

Project Description:
	Header created via MARC-to-XML-to-TEI transformation on 2011-06-23
Editorial Declaration:
	This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has been done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through automated and manual processes using the recommendations for Level 2 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file.