Robert Maynard Hutchins

Robert Maynard Hutchins
Title Robert Maynard Hutchins PDF eBook
Author Milton Mayer
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 584
Release 1993-01-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780520070912

Download Robert Maynard Hutchins Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"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

The Higher Learning in America

The Higher Learning in America
Title The Higher Learning in America PDF eBook
Author Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher Transaction Publishers
Pages 154
Release
Genre
ISBN 1412837189

Download The Higher Learning in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Higher Learning in America

The Higher Learning in America
Title The Higher Learning in America PDF eBook
Author Thorstein Veblen
Publisher
Pages 338
Release 1918
Genre Education, Higher
ISBN

Download The Higher Learning in America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Robert M. Hutchins

Robert M. Hutchins
Title Robert M. Hutchins PDF eBook
Author Mary Ann Dzuback
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 460
Release 1991-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780226177106

Download Robert M. Hutchins Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Hutchins' University

Hutchins' University
Title Hutchins' University PDF eBook
Author William H. McNeill
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 217
Release 1991
Genre Education
ISBN 0226561712

Download Hutchins' University Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Education for Freedom

Education for Freedom
Title Education for Freedom PDF eBook
Author Ward Wilbur Keesecker
Publisher
Pages 54
Release 1948
Genre Civics
ISBN

Download Education for Freedom Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Unseasonable Truths

Unseasonable Truths
Title Unseasonable Truths PDF eBook
Author Harry S. Ashmore
Publisher Little Brown
Pages 664
Release 1989
Genre Educators
ISBN

Download Unseasonable Truths Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"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.