Comrades of the Quest: An Oral History of Reed College

John Sheehy

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Oregon State University, 2012

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The Ideal College is a college free to pursue its mission with unobscured vision of the truth, and power to proclaim the truth without fear or favour of politicians, or religious sects, or benefactors, or public cries, or its own administrative machinery.' - William Trufant Foster Visionary. Iconoclast. Rebel. William Trufant Foster set out in 1911 to launch the 'ideal college,' and succeeded in building an intellectual liberal arts powerhouse that over the next century would perpetually seek to break the hard crust of custom and orthodoxy. Foster's quest for excellence and truth generated a steady yield of students - ranging from poet Gary Snyder to muckraker Barbara Ehrenreich to Apple founder Steve Jobs - who left Reed College eager to challenge society's dominant paradigms. Comrades of the Quest chronicles the colourful cultural and social history of this band of young, iconoclastic West Coast intellectuals, and of the institution that nurtured them. Drawing from interviews with more than 1,400 people and from unpublished memoirs stretching back to the college's early decades, John Sheehy weaves together a riveting story told from first-hand perspectives of this unique community's early formation and its ongoing quest to bring Foster's vision to life. With a punch much mightier than its weight, the Reed community undertakes an arduous journey through the political and educational developments of the past century - from the progressive education movement in the 1910s, the general education programs between the two world wars, scientific methodology in the 1950s, political relevance in the 1960s, theories of structuralism and deconstruction in the 1970s, the cultural wars in the 1980s, political correctness in the 1990s, to ideological bias in the 2000s - while keeping its founding ideals largely intact. At a time when America is struggling to sustain its innovative edge, Reed College remains an iconic model in equipping students with the most rigourous set of skills and attitudes possible for questioning status quo thinking in a rapidly changing world. Its story, populated with a rich cast of characters, and marked by intense rigour, demanding social freedom, and unconventional creativity, is no customary college history, but rather an intellectual thriller of American idealism played out against the hard world of social, religious, and political conformity, to great heights and near-fatal confrontations.…

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Titel
Comrades of the Quest: An Oral History of Reed College
Autor
John Sheehy
Verlag
Oregon State University
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
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Hardback
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Englisch
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0870716670
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9780870716676

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