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What is the purpose of higher education? Here, Stanley Fish argues that, however laudable goals of fostering diversity and democracy might be, there is but one proper role for the academe in society: to advance bodies of knowledge and to equip students for doing the same. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The decade or so on either side of the millennium must have been a trying time for higher education in America as it became the battleground of the culture wars. Professor Fish was caught in the crossfire but he did not remain a non-combatant for long. The strident opinion pieces he wrote at that time form the basis of this vigorous defence of a non-political academia. Fish excoriates both the left and the right. But everything comes back to his so-called mantra and his neo-Kantian definition of the job of the university teacher.
There is something curiously sentimental about Fish’s view. The unworldly teacher and scholar inducts another crop of students into the virtues of some academic discipline in an institution whose existence is an end in itself. It hardly matters, it seems, that it may not describe any university or indeed any professor you’ve ever encountered. It stands as a kind of ideal against which, perhaps, we are meant to measure our actual practice. I worry that leads to pessimism about the future of higher education in America, since our actual practice so clearly fails to measure up. On the other hand, these institutions did manage to produce a thinker like Professor Fish, so perhaps there is still hope. Cautiously recommended. ( )