School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

Ways of Learning

Volume 1, Number 4 | fall 2008

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Playing with Fire

Lewis H. Lapham

Escape from the Ivory Tower

April Bernard

Academic Virtue

Stanley Fish

Catch and Release

D. Graham Burnett

The College Idea

Andrew Delbanco

School Terms

George Steiner

Portraits of the Artist

Howard Singerman

Map

The Art of Knowing

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Equal Education

1901 | Princeton, NJ

Bestiary

c. 1506 | Italy

Rising Tide of Mediocrity

1983 | Washington, DC

Negative Standard

c. 1854 | Cambridge, MA

Polished Gold

c. 585 | Chang’an

Homers Without an Achilles

1621 | Oxford

Teaching Philosophy

1981 | New York City

What Need We More of Learning?

1618 | England

Trimming the Ivy

2008 | New Haven

Meeting a Guru

1960 | San Quentin

Making a Man

1900 | Albany

Equal Opportunity

1776 | Boston

Free Speech

1179 | Rome

Pragmatism

1903 | Tuskegee

Taking the Ell

c. 1830 | Baltimore

Training a Thief

1838 | London

Thomas Jefferson Opens a School

1818 | Charlottesville

Empire of Reason

1854 | Dublin

Class Distinctions

1803 | Königsberg

Under the Lights

1988 | Odessa

Seek and Ye Shall Find

c. 500 BC | Lu

Uprooting the Grove of Academe

1903 | Cambridge, MA

Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom

c. 796 | Tours

Useful Ignorance

1851 | Concord

Reading List

c. 1813 | London

Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine

1906 | New York City

Calling in the Troops

1957 | Little Rock

Gentleman and Scholar

1390 | London

Training a Soul

403 | Bethlehem

Man Thinking

1837 | Cambridge, MA

Misspent Youth

1644 | London

Charts and Graphs

The Pen Is Mightier

Living Wage

Amanuenses Then and Now

Polite Company

Thought Control

In This Year’s Graduating Class…

Famous Dropouts

Modern Apprenticeships

Contributors

Conversations

Aristotle & John Locke

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The World in Time

David S. Brown

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. More