Welcome, Friends! In the weeks leading up to our visit with you on March 26, Jeff and I would like to begin the conversation here. We will periodically post discussion points and articles, and invite you to respond. This is also the forum for you to post material of your choice related to our topic. We look forward to meeting you on these pages, and continuing this exchange face to face on March 26. ≈Stewart

Monday, March 29, 2010

Open Conversation

We've opened this post for your insights and follow-up comments on the seminar and the Further Readings posted to the right.
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  1. Jeff MartinekMarch 29, 2010 at 3:36 PM

    Another item for further reading: Full text of Jacques Barzun's The American University (1968) on Google Books here:

    http://books.google.com/books?id=e89rlySIsU0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Barzun+the+american+university&source=bl&ots=WHBFOB2MJA&sig=hdN5UWU9R9QmvLnZOq3k2dGNePc&hl=en&ei=rA6xS5iTDYiwNr-a-fcP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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  2. Jeff MartinekMarch 29, 2010 at 3:37 PM

    In reference to the above, it turns out that it's not the full text at all -- only the introduction.

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  3. Jeff MartinekMarch 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM

    Complete online text of Charles Homer Haskins -"The Rise of the Universities"

    http://www.elfinspell.com/UniversitiesTitle.html

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  4. r. Alan JamesApril 5, 2010 at 7:20 AM

    Reading Gatto's ....less schooling, not more... brings pain as well as hope. That is the nature of truth, and by that I do not mean that the treatise is the whole of truth. The pain involved is the revelation of my involvement-our involvement-in fashioning something that we really don't want. Who of us is truly willing to trade the trinkets of our commerce for a community? We suppose we are not trading, and that we know we can have it all. Have both. Gatto makes us wonder... and

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