Saturday, November 08, 2008

Berkowitz, Peter. "Towering Ivories: Stanley Fish and his Ideal of the American University." WEEKLY STANDARD 14.8 (2008).

Fish, Stanley. Save the World on Your Own Time. Oxford: OUP, 2008. Stanley Fish, the title of whose book is an admonition to professors to keep their politics out of the classroom, understands a great deal about what is wrong with higher education in America. Unfortunately, his prescriptions for reform--which amount to little more than exhortations to faculty and administrators to mend their ways and, whatever else they do, not to explain or justify liberal education to legislators, private donors, alumni, parents, or students--are foolish and self-defeating. Part of the trouble is Fish's fondness for deflationary tactics and contrarian positions. The deeper problem is his failure to take seriously the liberal in liberal education and the liberal in liberal democracy. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/740pcklf.asp?pg=1.

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