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Teacher in America

Title
Teacher in America / by Jacques Barzun.
Author
Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012.
Publication
  • Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1945.
  • ©1945

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Description
vi, 321 pages; 21 cm
Summary
Donated by Sydney Harris.
Subject
  • College teaching > United States
  • Education, Higher > United States
  • Teaching
  • Education
  • Teaching
  • teaching
  • College teaching
  • Education, Higher
  • Intellectual life
  • Education > United States
  • United States > Intellectual life
  • United States
Note
  • "An Atlantic monthly press book."
  • "First edition."
  • London edition (V. Gollancz ltd.) has title: We who teach.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Bibliographical note": p. [320]-321.
Contents
Profession: teacher -- Pupils into students -- Two minds, one thought -- How to write and be read -- How to read and be right -- Let x equal -- The ivory lab -- Clio: a muse -- What once were frills -- Tongues and areas -- The classics off the shelf -- Columbia College, Columbia University -- Deans within deans -- The Ph. D. octopus -- Your I.Q. or your life -- The human boy -- The subjection of women -- Adults, workers, and marriageable girls -- Our nation of highbrows -- The little money -- To a young man who ...
LCCN
45001580
OCLC
  • ocm00184826
  • 184826
  • SCSB-186015
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library