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

Academic Virtue

Stanley Fish

School Terms

George Steiner

Escape from the Ivory Tower

April Bernard

Portraits of the Artist

Howard Singerman

Catch and Release

D. Graham Burnett

The College Idea

Andrew Delbanco

Map

The Art of Knowing

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Free Speech

1179 | Rome

Uprooting the Grove of Academe

1903 | Cambridge

Misspent Youth

1644 | London

Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine

1906 | New York City

Bestiary

c. 1506 | Italy

Teaching Philosophy

1981 | New York City

Pragmatism

1903 | Tuskegee

Sowing the Seeds of Wisdom

c. 796 | Tours

Training a Thief

1838 | London

Polished Gold

c. 585 | Chang’an

Under the Lights

1988 | Odessa

Reading List

c. 1813 | London

Man Thinking

1837 | Cambridge

Trimming the Ivy

2008 | New Haven

Making a Man

1900 | Albany

Calling in the Troops

1957 | Little Rock

Taking the Ell

c. 1830 | Baltimore

Gentleman and Scholar

1390 | London

Seek and Ye Shall Find

c. 500 BC | Lu

Useful Ignorance

1851 | Concord

What Need We More of Learning?

1618 | England

Thomas Jefferson Opens a School

1818 | Charlottesville

Meeting a Guru

1960 | San Quentin

Homers Without an Achilles

1621 | Oxford

Empire of Reason

1854 | Dublin

Training a Soul

403 | Bethlehem

Rising Tide of Mediocrity

1983 | Washington, DC

Class Distinctions

1803 | Königsberg

Equal Opportunity

1776 | Boston

Equal Education

1901 | Princeton

Charts and Graphs

Polite Conversation

In This Year’s Graduating Class…

Thought Control

Modern Apprenticeships

Amanuenses Then and Now

Living Wage

Contributors

Conversations

Aristotle & John Locke

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