Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 4, 2013 | PBS

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JEFFREY BROWN: “If you want an education, the odds aren’t with you,

JEFFREY BROWN: You add a larger level. You write: “Midway through the last decade, the 20th century, American higher education changed. Colleges and universities entered a new phase in which they stopped being intellectually driven and culturally oriented and began to model themselves on business.”But, for now, Mark Edmundson, the new book is

“Why Teach?: In Defense of a Real Education.” Thanks so much.

 

Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 4, 2013 | PBS.