"With refreshing eloquence, James O. Freedman sets down the American ideals that have informed his life as an intellectual, a law professor, and a college and university president. He examines the content and character of liberal education, discusses the importance of letters and learning in forming his own life and values, and explores how the lessons and the habits of mind instilled by a liberal education can give direction and meaning to one's life. He offers a stirring defense of affirmative action in higher education. And he describes how, in the midst of undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, liberal education helped him in the most human of desires - the yearning to make order and sense out of his experience."--Jacket.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
00027280
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
08670
Stock Number
22573/ctt1djbh26
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Title
Idealism and liberal education.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Education, Higher-- Aims and objectives-- United States.