Robert Maynard Hutchins

Author : Milton Mayer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520311213

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Robert Maynard Hutchins by Milton Mayer Pdf

At age 28, he was dean of Yale Law School; at 30, president of the University of Chicago. By his mid-thirties, Robert Maynard Hutchins was an eminent figure in the world of educational innovation and liberal politics. And when he was 75, he told a friend, "I should have died at 35." Milton Mayer, Hutchins's colleague, and friend, gives an intimate picture of the remarkably outstanding, and fallible, man who participated in many of this century's most important social and political controversies. He captures the energy and intellectual fervor Hutchins could transmit to others, and which the man brought to the fields of law, politics, civil rights, and public affairs. Rich in detail and anecdote, this memoir vividly brings to life both a man and an age. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781412837187

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The Higher Learning in America by Robert Maynard Hutchins Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Dzuback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226177106

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Robert M. Hutchins by Mary Ann Dzuback Pdf

As president of the University of Chicago from 1929 to 1951, Robert Maynard Hutchins came to be one of the most prominent and controversial figures in American higher education. To this day, his vision of what the university should be has given shape to twentieth-century debates over the content and function of education in the United States. In her critical biography, the first to focus on Hutchins' University of Chicago decades, Mary Ann Dzuback gives a full and fascinating account of this complex man—his development, his achievements and failures, and finally, his legacy.

Author : Thorstein Veblen
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : EAN:8596547008651

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The Higher Learning in America by Thorstein Veblen Pdf

Thorstein Veblen was an American economist and sociologist. He is well known as a witty critic of capitalism. Veblen is famous for the idea of "conspicuous consumption." Conspicuous consumption, along with "conspicuous leisure," is performed to demonstrate wealth or mark social status. Veblen explains the concept in his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class. Within the history of economic thought, Veblen is considered the leader of the institutional economics movement. Veblen's distinction between "institutions" and "technology" is still called the Veblenian dichotomy by contemporary economists. In the beginning of his academic career Veblen had difficulties obtaining a university position, whether because he was discriminated for being Norwegian, or openly identified as an agnostic. These difficulties later inspired him to write The Higher Learning in America. In this book he claimed that true academic values were sacrificed by universities in favor of their own self-interest and profitability._x000D_

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : OCLC:1126623918

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The Learning Society by Robert Maynard Hutchins Pdf

Author : Milton Mayer,Milton Sanford Mayer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520070917

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Robert Maynard Hutchins by Milton Mayer,Milton Sanford Mayer Pdf

"Mayer's memoir is by far the most exciting Hutchins book ever. His style, wit, and passion--and his insight--put it into a class by itself."--Studs Terkel "Mayer's memoir is by far the most exciting Hutchins book ever. His style, wit, and passion--and his insight--put it into a class by itself."--Studs Terkel

Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226561714

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Hutchins' University by William H. McNeill Pdf

The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives. McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him. Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942. In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.

Author : Ward Wilbur Keesecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Civics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044031745185

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Education for Freedom by Ward Wilbur Keesecker Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Literature
ISBN : MINN:31951001624468H

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Great Books of the Western World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry S. Ashmore
Publisher : Little Brown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Educators
ISBN : UCAL:B4964652

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Unseasonable Truths by Harry S. Ashmore Pdf

"Precociousl brilliant and endowed with the will, energy, and presence to promote his convictions, Robert Maynard Hutchins was one of the major voices of the twentieth century. In the course of his long career as legal scholar, political philosopher, educational reformer, and civil libertarian, he became the most celebrated--and most controversial--intellectual of his era."--Cover.

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : OCLC:1319806283

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The university of Utopia by Robert Maynard Hutchins Pdf

Author : William H. McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226561721

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Hutchins' University by William H. McNeill Pdf

The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of learning and his resounding call for reforms in general education sparked controversy and fueled debate on campus and off. It became a struggle for the heart and soul of higher education—and McNeill, as a student and then as an instructor, was a participant. His account of the university's history is laced with personal reminiscences, encounters with influential fellow scholars such as Richard McKeon, R. S. Crane, and David Daiches, and details drawn from Hutchins' papers and other archives. McNeill sketches the interplay of personalities with changing circumstances of the Depression, war, and postwar eras. But his central concern is with the institutional life of the University, showing how student behavior, staff and faculty activity and even the Hyde Park neighborhood all revolved around the charismatic figure of Robert Maynard Hutchins—shaped by him and in reaction against him. Successive transformations of the College, and the tribulations of the ideal of general or liberal education are central to much of the story; but the memoir also explores how the University was affected by such events as Red scares, the remarkably successful Round Table radio broadcasts, the abolition of big time football, and the inauguration of the nuclear age under the west stands of Stagg Field in 1942. In short, Hutchins' University sketches an extraordinarily vibrant period for the University of Chicago and for American higher education. It will revive old controversies among veterans from those times, and may provoke others to reflect anew about the proper role of higher education in American society.

Author : DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230308848

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Reading Communities from Salons to Cyberspace by DeNel Rehberg Sedo Pdf

Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Scribner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great books of the Western world
ISBN : 0684859211

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The Great Ideas by Mortimer Jerome Adler Pdf

Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.

Author : Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0353294977

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No Friendly Voice by Robert Maynard Hutchins Pdf

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