Table of Contents
2008 Fall
Ways of Learning
Introductory
Voices in Time
The Hypothesis
- William Deresiewicz Trims the Ivy: 2008 / New Haven
- What Need We More of Learning?: 1618 / England
- Thomas Jefferson Opens a School: 1818 / Charlottesville
- Peter Abélard Renounces Pride and Lechery: c, 1130 / France
- East Meets West: 1987 / Chicago
- Education by Whip: 1375 / Algeria
- Empire of Reason: 1854 / Dublin
- Power Play: 1975 / Paris
- Assembly Line: 1807 / Berlin
- Rising Tide of Mediocrity: 1983 / Washington, D.C.
- Innate Abilities: 1936 / The Netherlands
- Zitkala-sa Attends Boarding School: 1884 / Indiana
- Equal Opportunity: 1776 / Boston
- Collateral Learning: 1938 / New York City
- Free Speech: 1179 / Rome
- Affirmative Action: 1982 / San Francisco
- Against Atrophy: 1910 / Chicago
- Faye Levine in Purgatory: 1965 / Cambridge
- School Under Siege: 2004 / Beslan
- Eisenhower Calls in the Troops: 1957 / Little Rock
- Benevolent Despotism: c. 580 BC / Persia
- Pragmatism: 1903 / Tuskegee
- Misspent Youth: 1644 / London
- Daydream: 1962 / Oxford
- Education Will Be Your Mother: 1988 / Pinyudo
- Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom: c. 796 / Tours
- Epistemology: 1931 / Berlin
- Hard Knocks: 1955 / New York City
- Homers Without an Achilles: 1621 / Oxford
- William James Uproots the Grove of Academe: 1903 / Cambridge
The Experiment
- Teaching Family Values: 1995 / Parris Island
- George Orwell Learns His Lesson: c. 1912 / Sussex
- Talent Is Memory: c. 90 / Rome
- Frederick Douglass Takes the Ell: 1826 / Baltimore
- Mary McCarthy Avoids Damnation: 1924 / Seattle
- The Training of a Soul: 403 / Bethlehem
- School of Fine Arts: c. 1926 / Madrid
- Eldridge Cleaver Meets His Guru: 1960 / San Quentin
- Aristophanes Enters the Culture Wars: 423 BC / Athens
- James Hilton Gives the Context: c. 1918 / Brookfield
- Soft Wax and Stinking Lampblack: c. 105 / Rome
- Don DeLillo Learns to Love the Grommet: 1955 / Minnesota
- Blue Crayon and Blessed Ink: 1916 / Nova Scotia
- Philosopher Empress: c. 1745 / St. Petersburg
- Donald Barthelme Teaches Philosophy: 1981 / New York City
- John Stuart Mill’s Reading List: c. 1813 / London
- Hands-on Learning: 1762 / Montmercy
- René Descartes Delivers Himself from Error: 1637 / Leiden
- Seek and Ye Shall Find: c. 500 BC / Lu
- Matters of Perspective: c. 1490 / Milan
- The University in Exile: 1946 / Greenwich Village
- Old Clothes Upon Old Sticks: 1928 / Dublin
- Class Distinctions: 1803 / Königsberg
- Guarding Thoughts: c. 500 BC / India
- Equal Education: 1901 / Princeton
- Plato Quiets the Poets: c. 378 BC / Athens
- Pledge of Allegiance: 1966 / Yizhen
- Live Demonstration: 1853 / Vilette
- Man About Town: c. 412 BC / Athens
- Charles Dickens Trains a Thief: 1838 / London
- Baby Mozard: c. 1952 / Ueda
- Moonlight: c. 1915 / Jackson
- The Living Word: 1887 / Alabama
Product & Byproduct
- Alternative History: 2000 / Shepherdstown
- Man Thinking: 1837 / Cambridge
- Mission Statement: c. 64 / Rome
- Crossing the Stream: 1874 / Schaffhausen
- Gentleman and Scholar: 1390 / London
- College Dreaming: 1914 / Princeton
- Under the Lights: 1988 / Odessa
- Herman Hesse Raises an Objection: 1906 / Maulbronn
- Attention Deficit Disorder: 1952 / Northampton
- Owen Johnson Points to the Right Crowd: 1912 / New Haven
- The Birth of Cool: 1507 / Urbino
- Learning the Ropes: c. 1965 / Kyoto
- Poet's Heart, Woman's Body: 1929 / London
- Philosopher King: 1513 / San Casciano
- Theodore Roosevelt Makes a Man: 1900 / Albany
- A Good Beating: 1929 / Derbyshire
- Denis Diderot Conducts a Seminar: c. 1772 / Paris
- Bestiary: c. 1506 / Italy
- Graham Greene's Books of Divination: 1951 / London
- Polished Gold: c. 585 / Chang’an
- Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine: 1906 / New York City
- Useful Ignorance: 1851 / Concord
- Making Impressions: c. 524 / Rome
- Negative Standard: c. 1854 / Cambridge
Departments
Essays
- Catch and Release: by D. Graham Burnett
- Escape from the Ivory Tower: by April Bernard
- Portraits of the Artist: by Howard Singerman
- The College Idea: by Andrew Delbanco
Conversations
Letters
What If...?
- Visual Aids
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Sacred Ground
The homes and haunts of the gods
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- Audio & Video
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The World in Time: Power Play
Superior technology doesn’t always make for a successful empire explains historian Daniel R. Headrick in his book Power Over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present.
Medicine
2009: Fall
Travel
2009: Summer
Crimes & Punishments
2009: Spring
Eros
2009: Winter
Ways of Learning
2008: Fall
Book of Nature
2008: Summer
About Money
2008: Spring
States of War
2008: Winter