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Download or read book Salmagundi written by James Kirke Paulding and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paulding's Works: Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, esq. [pseud.] and others [by Washington Irving, William Irving and J.K. Paulding] A new ed., corrected by the authors. 1835 written by James Kirke Paulding and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue, Part First-[second] of the Collection of Books, Autographs, &c., the Property of C.W. Frederickson ... written by Charles William Frederickson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Politics by Other Means written by David Bromwich and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberal education has been under siege in recent years. Far-right ideologues in journalism and government have pressed for a uniform curriculum that focuses on the achievements of Western culture. Partisans of the academic left, who hold our culture responsible for the evils of society, have attempted to redress imbalances by fostering multiculturalism in education. In this eloquent and passionate book a distinguished scholar criticizes these positions and calls for a return to the tradition of independent thinking that he contends has been betrayed by both right and left. Under the guise of educational reform, says David Bromwich, these groups are in fact engaging in politics by other means. Bromwich argues that rivals in the debate over education have one thing in common: they believe in the all-importance of culture. Each assumes that culture confers identity, decides the terms of every moral choice, and gives a meaning to life. Both sides therefore see education as a means to indoctrinate students in specific cultural and political dogmas. By contrast, Bromwich contends that genuine education is concerned less with culture than with critical thinking and independence of mind. This view of education is not a middle way among the political demands of the moment, says Bromwich. Its earlier advocates include Mill and Wollstonecraft, and its roots can be traced to such secular moralists as Burke and Hume. Bromwich attacks the anti-democratic and intolerant premises of both right and left--premises that often appear in the conservative guise of "preserving the tradition" on the one hand, or the radical guise of "opening up the tradition" on the other. He discusses the new academic "fundamentalists" and the politically correct speech codes they have devised to enforce a doctrine of intellectual conformity; educational policy as articulated by conservative apologists George Will and William Bennett; the narrow logic of institutional radicalism; the association between personal reflection and social morality; and the discipline of literary study, where the symptoms of cultural conflict have appeared most visibly. Written with the wisdom and conviction of a dedicated teacher, this book is a persuasive plea to recover a true liberal tradition in academia and government--through independent thinking, self-knowledge, and tolerance of other points of view.

Download or read book Salmagundi, Or the Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Knickerbacker written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi. [With] Catalogue of the Canadian and other British North American books in the library of the British museum at Christmas mdccclvi [and] Catalogue of the Mexican and other Spanish American & West Indian books in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 [and] Catalogue of the American maps in the library of the British museum at Christmas 1856 written by Henry Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: