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Overview"This critically acclaimed collection is both a passionate celebration of teaching as a vocation and an argument for rhetoric as the center of liberal education. While Booth provides an eloquent personal account of the pleasures of teaching, he also vigorously exposes the political and economic scandals that frustrate even the most dedicated educators. ""[Booth] is unusually adept at addressing a wide variety of audiences. From deep in the heart of this academic jungle, he shows a clear eye and a firm step.""—Alison Friesinger Hill, New York Times Book Review ""A cause for celebration. . . . What an uncommon man is Wayne Booth. What an uncommon book he has provided for our reflection.""—James Squire, Educational Leadership ""This book stands as a vigorous reminder of the traditional virtues of the scholar-teacher.""—Brian Cox, Times Literary Supplement " Full Product DetailsAuthor: Wayne C. Booth (Late of University of Chicago)Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780226065823ISBN 10: 0226065820 Pages: 372 Publication Date: 29 January 1991 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsSplendid collection of miscellaneous essays, speeches, and other writings viewing and reviewing the condition of teaching in America. Booth (English/U. of Chicago; The Rhetoric of Fiction, The Company We Keep) is typically erudite, wry, learned, and finally very serious in this generous address to all those, especially teachers and would-be teachers, concerned firsthand with American education. Booth's thesis is that American education is indeed under siege, even in crisis, but unlike his colleague Allan Bloom he sees silver lingings rather than clouds. He recounts 20 years of classroom pleasures and frustrations; evaluates minutely his own flaws and virtues as an instructor; recalls student victories rather than defeats; and weaves humorous anecdotes out of austere occasions in the name of showing the resiliency of American education, and those who practice it. He also, unlike Bloom, makes practical recommendations for improving education: raising teachers' salaries; giving some of them tax breaks; forming a National Teachers' Corps, a la the Peace Corps, to tackle the Big Problems. As for what and how to teach, Booth plays up the potential lessons of his own specialty - rhetoric - as a true life-subject, relating it, for example, to feminism and science. Finally, he reminds in an increasingly technical age of the crucial role of English as the last bastion of truly free critical thinking in the American university, and pleads for broader recognition among university officials of its central role in the curriculum. Smashing defense of a noble profession, and a brilliant program of ideas for America's educational future. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationWayne C. Booth (1921-2005) was the George Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Rhetoric of Fiction, A Rhetoric of Irony, The Power and Limits of Pluralism, The Vocation of a Teacher, and Forthe Love of It, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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