Table of Contents

2008 Fall

Ways of Learning

Introductory

• Playing with Fire: by Lewis H. Lapham

Voices in Time

The Hypothesis

• William Deresiewicz Trims the Ivy: 2008 / New Haven
• What Need We More of Learning?: 1618 / England
• Thomas Jefferson Opens a School: 1818 / Charlottesville
• Peter Abélard Renounces Pride and Lechery: c, 1130 / France
• East Meets West: 1987 / Chicago
• Education by Whip: 1375 / Algeria
• Empire of Reason: 1854 / Dublin
• Power Play: 1975 / Paris
• Assembly Line: 1807 / Berlin
• Rising Tide of Mediocrity: 1983 / Washington, D.C.
• Innate Abilities: 1936 / The Netherlands
• Zitkala-sa Attends Boarding School: 1884 / Indiana
• Equal Opportunity: 1776 / Boston
• Collateral Learning: 1938 / New York City
• Free Speech: 1179 / Rome
• Affirmative Action: 1982 / San Francisco
• Against Atrophy: 1910 / Chicago
• Faye Levine in Purgatory: 1965 / Cambridge
• School Under Siege: 2004 / Beslan
• Eisenhower Calls in the Troops: 1957 / Little Rock
• Benevolent Despotism: c. 580 BC / Persia
• Pragmatism: 1903 / Tuskegee
• Misspent Youth: 1644 / London
• Daydream: 1962 / Oxford
• Education Will Be Your Mother: 1988 / Pinyudo
• Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom: c. 796 / Tours
• Epistemology: 1931 / Berlin
• Hard Knocks: 1955 / New York City
• Homers Without an Achilles: 1621 / Oxford
• William James Uproots the Grove of Academe: 1903 / Cambridge

The Experiment

• Teaching Family Values: 1995 / Parris Island
• George Orwell Learns His Lesson: c. 1912 / Sussex
• Talent Is Memory: c. 90 / Rome
• Frederick Douglass Takes the Ell: 1826 / Baltimore
• Mary McCarthy Avoids Damnation: 1924 / Seattle
• The Training of a Soul: 403 / Bethlehem
• School of Fine Arts: c. 1926 / Madrid
• Eldridge Cleaver Meets His Guru: 1960 / San Quentin
• Aristophanes Enters the Culture Wars: 423 BC / Athens
• James Hilton Gives the Context: c. 1918 / Brookfield
• Soft Wax and Stinking Lampblack: c. 105 / Rome
• Don DeLillo Learns to Love the Grommet: 1955 / Minnesota
• Blue Crayon and Blessed Ink: 1916 / Nova Scotia
• Philosopher Empress: c. 1745 / St. Petersburg
• Donald Barthelme Teaches Philosophy: 1981 / New York City
• John Stuart Mill’s Reading List: c. 1813 / London
• Hands-on Learning: 1762 / Montmercy
• René Descartes Delivers Himself from Error: 1637 / Leiden
• Seek and Ye Shall Find: c. 500 BC / Lu
• Matters of Perspective: c. 1490 / Milan
• The University in Exile: 1946 / Greenwich Village
• Old Clothes Upon Old Sticks: 1928 / Dublin
• Class Distinctions: 1803 / Königsberg
• Guarding Thoughts: c. 500 BC / India
• Equal Education: 1901 / Princeton
• Plato Quiets the Poets: c. 378 BC / Athens
• Pledge of Allegiance: 1966 / Yizhen
• Live Demonstration: 1853 / Vilette
• Man About Town: c. 412 BC / Athens
• Charles Dickens Trains a Thief: 1838 / London
• Baby Mozard: c. 1952 / Ueda
• Moonlight: c. 1915 / Jackson
• The Living Word: 1887 / Alabama

Product & Byproduct

• Alternative History: 2000 / Shepherdstown
• Man Thinking: 1837 / Cambridge
• Mission Statement: c. 64 / Rome
• Crossing the Stream: 1874 / Schaffhausen
• Gentleman and Scholar: 1390 / London
• College Dreaming: 1914 / Princeton
• Under the Lights: 1988 / Odessa
• Herman Hesse Raises an Objection: 1906 / Maulbronn
• Attention Deficit Disorder: 1952 / Northampton
• Owen Johnson Points to the Right Crowd: 1912 / New Haven
• The Birth of Cool: 1507 / Urbino
• Learning the Ropes: c. 1965 / Kyoto
• Poet's Heart, Woman's Body: 1929 / London
• Philosopher King: 1513 / San Casciano
• Theodore Roosevelt Makes a Man: 1900 / Albany
• A Good Beating: 1929 / Derbyshire
• Denis Diderot Conducts a Seminar: c. 1772 / Paris
• Bestiary: c. 1506 / Italy
• Graham Greene's Books of Divination: 1951 / London
• Polished Gold: c. 585 / Chang’an
• Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine: 1906 / New York City
• Useful Ignorance: 1851 / Concord
• Making Impressions: c. 524 / Rome
• Negative Standard: c. 1854 / Cambridge

Departments

Essays

• Catch and Release: by D. Graham Burnett
• Escape from the Ivory Tower: by April Bernard
• Portraits of the Artist: by Howard Singerman
• The College Idea: by Andrew Delbanco

Conversations

Letters

What If...?

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