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Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jack R Baker; Jeffrey Bilbro; Wendell Berry |
ISBN: | 9780813169033 0813169038 |
OCLC Number: | 1105519659 |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.) |
Contents: | Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Imagining the Tree of Wisdom; 2 Standing by Our Words; 3 Doing Good Work; Introduction to Part 2; 4 Tradition; 5 Hierarchy; 6 Geography; 7 Community; Conclusion; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
Responsibility: | Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro ; foreword by Wendell Berry. |
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A masterful argument. Baker and Bilbro have given us a brilliant companion to Berry's work that will guide readers - students, parents, professors, and administrators - to rethink educational values and institutional trajectories."" - Morris A. Grubbs, editor of Conversations with Wendell Berry"" Wendell Berry and Higher Education offers a helpful and much-needed counternarrative to the pragmatic visions of higher education that dominate the current discussion. Works like this are essential for finding a way forward in a time marked by the arrogance of Wall Street, the failure of political discourse, and educational practices that hide more problems than they address."" - Matt Bonzo, coauthor of Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life: A Reader's Guide Read more...

