Book Review: Why Teach? In Defense of a Real Education
by Mark Edmundson. Bloomsbury, 2013. Hardcover. Review by Deborah Straw In “A Word to the New Humanities Professor,” Mark Edmundson, Professor of English, recommends the way to consider the job and the students. “He [the new professor] must take very seriously… the central lesson that his students have to instill: that he is a service provider, not entirely unlikely the dentist, the stockbroker… and the man who comes to clean the pool… As to grades, he should understand that students care nothing about them…as long as certain protocols are observed.” That means that grades will range from a B- to […]
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