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Pages : 794

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Author: Roosevelt Montas
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691224390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how the Great Books transformed his life—and why they have the power to speak to people of all backgrounds What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterized by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution requirements and ever-narrower academic specialization. Many academics attack the very idea of a Western canon as chauvinistic, while the general public increasingly doubts the value of the humanities. In Rescuing Socrates, Dominican-born American academic Roosevelt Montás tells the story of how a liberal education transformed his life, and offers an intimate account of the relevance of the Great Books today, especially to members of historically marginalized communities. Montás emigrated from the Dominican Republic to Queens, New York, when he was twelve and encountered the Western classics as an undergraduate in Columbia University’s renowned Core Curriculum, one of America’s last remaining Great Books programs. The experience changed his life and determined his career—he went on to earn a PhD in English and comparative literature, serve as director of Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, and start a Great Books program for low-income high school students who aspire to be the first in their families to attend college. Weaving together memoir and literary reflection, Rescuing Socrates describes how four authors—Plato, Augustine, Freud, and Gandhi—had a profound impact on Montás’s life. In doing so, the book drives home what it’s like to experience a liberal education—and why it can still remake lives.

Author: D. Tilden Brown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265794425
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Alumni Association of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department of Columbia College, New York, at the Spring Commencement, March 14, 1862 Columbia College, 1806, M. D. Prof. Surgery Colum College Prof. Of Surgery in Rutgers Med. College; President and Prof. Of Surgery in Univ. City of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author: Fremont Rider
Publisher: New York : H. Holt
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 834

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Author: John Bonner
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1253

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Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Fremont Rider
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 808

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