Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? Lewis HarryPaperback
Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? Lewis HarryPaperback America's great research universities are the envy of the world--and none more so than Harvard. But while…
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Excellence Without a Soul: Does Liberal Education Have a Future? Lewis HarryPaperback
America's great research universities are the envy of the world--and none more so than Harvard. But while striving to be unsurpassed in the quality of its faculty and students, Universities have forgotten that the fundamental purpose of undergraduate education is to turn young people into adults who will take responsibility for society. Never before has the competition for excellence been fiercer.
Harvard is unique; it is the richest, oldest, most powerful university in America, and so it has set many standards, for better or worse. In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, a Harvard professor for more than thirty years and Dean of Harvard College for eight, draws from his experience to explain how our great universities have abandoned their mission. Lewis evaluates the failures of this grand institution--from the hot button issue of grade inflation to the recent