Begin Here: Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning - Softcover

Barzun, Jacques

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226038475 ISBN 13: 9780226038476

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1992

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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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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" Jacques Barzun is University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University and the author of many books including the classic "Teacher in America" and "The American University."

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• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226038475
• ISBN 13: 9780226038476
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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