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Title: The Marketplace of Ideas
Subtitle: Reform and Reaction in the American University
Author: Louis Menand
Narrator: Michael Prichard
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-25-10
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes
Genres: Nonfiction, Social Sciences
Publisher's Summary:
Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable?
The answer, Louis Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy of higher education have remained the same for 100 years, while faculties and student bodies have radically changed and technology has drastically transformed the way people produce and disseminate knowledge.
Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, The Marketplace of Ideas examines what professors and students - and all the rest of us - might be better off without while assessing what is worth saving in our traditional university institutions.
Critic Reviews:
"Part history of higher education, part sympathetic but insistent argument for change, Menand's book is a worthy and admirably succinct exploration of why colleges are so difficult to improve." (The Washington Monthly)
