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Toward an ethic of higher education

Title: Toward an ethic of higher education / Mortimer R. Kadish.
Author: Kadish, Mortimer R. (Mortimer Raymond), 1916-2010.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1991.

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viii, 205 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Kadish argues that the mission of higher education should include the development of ethical individuals who can actively participate in the fast-changing and interconnected worlds of today and tomorrow. He rejects the notion that the purpose of higher education should be to mollycoddle the privileged class and produce graduates for the market economy. Instead, he asserts that the university should be more involved with real life through active learning experiences. Graduates with ethics, Kadish believes, are more important to society than a passel of cultured bodies or technological automatons. ISBN 0-8047-1883-0: $29.50.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-201) and index.

Contents

Introductory: a problem and a proposal -- Positional interests in higher education -- Questioning growth -- The relationships of education -- The ballet of higher education -- General education -- Liberal education -- Literature, science, philosophy -- Higher education and the professions -- The opening of the university -- The choice of politics -- Ethics and education -- The choice of higher educations.

ISBN

0804718830
9780804718837

LCCN

90027058

OCLC

ocm22909913
22909913
SCSB-1920859

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library