Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning - Softcover

Barzun, Jacques

 
9780226038476: Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning

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In this powerful, eloquent, and timely book, Jacques Barzun offers guidance for resolving the crisis in America's schools and colleges. Drawing on a lifetime of distinguished teaching, he issues a clear call to action for improving what goes on in America's classrooms. The result is an extraordinarily fresh, sensible, and practical program for better schools.

"It is difficult to imagine a more pungent, perceptive or eloquent commentary on contemporary American education than this collection of 15 pieces by Jacques Barzun."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Mr. Barzun's style is elegant, distinctive, philosophically consistent and much better-humored than that of many contemporary invective-hurlers."--David Alexander, New York Times Book Review

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ISBN 10:  0226038467 ISBN 13:  9780226038469
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1991
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