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E-book Being a Presence for Students : Teaching as a Lived Defense of Liberal Education

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In 1952, John William Miller delivered the Phi Beta Kappa address during Hobart College’s commencement. This lecture, “The Scholar as Man of the World,” offers an excellent statement of his philosophy of education. It covers a lot of ground, and in this chap-ter I focus on one of the stated aims of the lecture: exploring the importance of morale for college students. Toward the middle of his talk, Miller makes this point very directly, stating: “For it is a grievous thing to see the young student depart [college] without those convictions on which his morale depends.”10It is worth considering why, of all the things Miller could bring to Hobart from his experience as a professor at Williams College, he chose morale. Instead of rehashing platitudes about liberal education—congratulating Phi Beta Kappans for their hard work, for being campus leaders, for being models of the well-rounded individual—Miller’s speech eschewed the superficial and raised the philosophical and educational significance of the state of morale at liberal arts colleges.11 In asking these deeper questions about morale, Miller was reanimating a concern addressed by Ralph Waldo Emerson.In 1837, one hundred and fifteen years earlier, Emerson delivered the most famous Phi Beta Kappa address, “The American Scholar.”12In that speech to Harvard students, Emerson lamented the state of higher education in America. Still bound to European models and imitative in nature, Emerson hoped to free young Americans from this past, empowering them to be thinkers, unafraid of where their thought might take them. Emerson hoped to inspire thinkers who would be active: transforming work into vocation and living into an art. The American scholar would be no bookworm; they would use thought to transform this country into the ideals expressed in its founding documents. Miller was a great admirer of Emerson, and it makes sense that he would use the occasion to build off of key ideas from “The American Scholar.

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379 FRA b

Penerbit

USA : Lever Press., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

144 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781643150079

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379

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text

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computer

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online resource

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Public Policy Issues in Education

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