What's the Point of College?
Seeking Purpose in an Age of Reform
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Johann N. Neem
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In What's the Point of College?, historian Johann N. Neem offers a new way to think about the major questions facing higher education today, from online education to disruptive innovation to how students really learn. As commentators, reformers, and policymakers call for dramatic change and new educational models, this collection of lucid essays asks us to pause and take stock. What is a college education supposed to be? What kinds of institutions and practices will best help us get there? And which virtues must colleges and universities cultivate to sustain their desired ends?
During this time of drift, Neem argues, we need to moor our colleges once again to their core purposes. By evaluating reformers' goals in relation to the specific goods that a college should offer to students and society, What's the Point of College? connects public policy to deeper ethical questions. Exploring how we can ensure that America's colleges remain places for intellectual inquiry and reflection, Neem does not just provide answers to the big questions surrounding higher education - he offers listeners a guide for how to think about them.
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Ken Robinson is one of the world's most influential voices in education, and his 2006 TED Talk on the subject is the most viewed in the organization's history. Now, the internationally recognized leader on creativity and human potential focuses on one of the most critical issues of our time: how to transform the nation's troubled educational system.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Answer to Why Students Stop Trying
- De Alison Sattler en 07-21-15
De: Lou Aronica, y otros
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Not for Profit
- Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- De: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Tamara Marston
- Duración: 5 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 36
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry in the United States and abroad.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for Profit
- De elemarteacher en 07-21-17
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How to Educate a Citizen
- The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation
- De: E. D. Hirsch
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began 30 years ago with his classic best seller Cultural Literacy, urging America’s public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on “child-centered learning”. History, geography, science, civics, and other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning “techniques” and “values-based” curricula.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Practice in Reserving Judgement
- De Audrey en 01-12-24
De: E. D. Hirsch
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Excellent Sheep
- The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- De: William Deresiewicz
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways.
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2 out of 5 stars
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skip the book read the essay
- De Amazon Customer en 05-07-15
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The Case Against Education
- Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
- De: Bryan Caplan
- Narrado por: Allan Robertson
- Duración: 11 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 711
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Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Finally, someone says what needs to be said about education
- De Brandon B. en 05-17-18
De: Bryan Caplan
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The Future of the Professions
- How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts
- De: Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 271
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 223
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others to work as they did in the 20th century.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I Hope It's Not All True
- De John en 05-01-16
De: Richard Susskind, y otros
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The Global Achievement Gap
- Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills our Children Need - and What We Can Do About it
- De: Tony Wagner
- Narrado por: Paul Costanzo
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the context of the global knowledge economy and analyzes the skills necessary for our young people to succeed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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made obsolete by 'MostLikelyToSucceed'-still great
- De MichaelS en 04-01-16
De: Tony Wagner
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A Time to Build
- From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream
- De: Yuval Levin
- Narrado por: Ford Enlow
- Duración: 6 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 144
Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics is polarized and bitterly divided. Culture wars rage on campus, in the media, social media, and other arenas of our common life. And for too many Americans, alienation can descend into despair, weakening families and communities and even driving an explosion of opioid abuse. Left and right alike have responded with populist anger at our institutions, and use only metaphors of destruction to describe the path forward: cleaning house, draining swamps. But, as Yuval Levin argues, this is a misguided prescription.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incisive and Illuminating
- De Jakob en 01-26-23
De: Yuval Levin
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Dark Horse
- Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
- De: Todd Rose, Ogi Ogas
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 6 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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In Dark Horse, Rose and Ogas show how the four elements of the dark horse mind-set empower you to consistently make the right choices that fit your unique interests, abilities, and circumstances and will guide you to a life of passion, purpose, and achievement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If you're anything like me, you have to read this
- De Bree en 11-08-19
De: Todd Rose, y otros
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Engine of Impact
- Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector
- De: William F. Meehan III, Kim Starkey Jonker
- Narrado por: C. J. Lengua
- Duración: 7 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 37
We are entering a new era - an era of impact. The largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in history will soon be underway, bringing with it the potential for huge increases in philanthropic funding. Engine of Impact shows how nonprofits can apply the principles of strategic leadership to attract greater financial support and leverage that funding to maximum effect.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Must listen for all nonprofit leaders
- De Peter A. Mello en 02-09-19
De: William F. Meehan III, y otros
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The Austrian School of Economics
- A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, & Institutions
- De: Eugen Maria Schulak, Herbert Unterköfler
- Narrado por: Paul Strikwerda
- Duración: 6 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 74
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
The Austrian School is in the news as never before. It is discussed on business pages, in academic journals, and in speeches by public figures. At long last, there is a brilliant and engaging guide to the history, ideas, and institutions of the Austrian School of economics. It is written by two Austrian intellectuals who have gone to the sources themselves to provide a completely new look at the tradition and what it means for the future.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book about Austrian Economics and it's histor
- De Kyle and Dawn Christerson en 04-30-19
De: Eugen Maria Schulak, y otros
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Why Trust Science?
- The University Center for Human Values, Book 1
- De: Naomi Oreskes, M. Susan Lindee, Ottmar Edenhofer, y otros
- Narrado por: John Chancer, Kelly Burke, Kerry Shale, y otros
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength - and the greatest reason we can trust it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Perfect Production of an Excellent Work
- De Andrew Mazibrada en 01-15-20
De: Naomi Oreskes, y otros
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Average is Over
- Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
- De: Tyler Cowen
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 308
The widening gap between rich and poor means dealing with one big, uncomfortable truth: If you're not at the top, you're at the bottom. The global labor market is changing radically thanks to growth at the high end and the low. About three quarters of the jobs created in the United States since the great recession pay only a bit more than minimum wage. Still, the United States has more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever, and we continue to mint them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing analysis of future
- De JKBart en 12-10-13
De: Tyler Cowen
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The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- De: Todd Rose
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,215
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,034
Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Good intentions, terrible execution
- De Kristofer Jarl en 05-06-19
De: Todd Rose
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
- De: Richard Hofstadter
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 16 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 162
This book throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fifty years later, still valid today
- De David Evan Glasser en 11-13-18
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Science Education in the Early Roman Empire
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
- Duración: 4 h y 47 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 59
Throughout the Roman Empire cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Leslie RP en 01-14-17
De: Richard Carrier