Preamble Playing with Fire By Lewis H. Lapham The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels. More
Essay Escape from the Ivory Tower By April Bernard Having a PhD may have nothing to do with loving literature and being able to teach it well. More
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future. —Camille Paglia, 1992
