“On the Uses of a Liberal Education‚” by literature scholar and professor Mark Edmundson claims that students have lost their passion for education and learning because of consumerism. Edmundson begins his article by giving his thoughts on teacher evaluations. He then describes the lack of passion in students as well as the change in the liberal education program. Edmundson gives his opinion on student-teacher interactions‚ analyzes previous ideas on how to teach towards consumers‚ and finally writes
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Mark Edmundson’s essay‚ “On the Uses of a Liberal Education‚” was published in Harper’s magazine in the fall of 1997. Edmundson begins the article by giving us a glimpse into his own experiences teaching. He speaks on how‚ he dreads evaluation day at the end of each term‚ he feels he is being reviewed more on his entertaining ability and less on if the student felt changed by his course. Near the end of the article‚ Edmundson states‚ “My overall point is this: It’s not that a left-wing professional
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Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia additionally‚ he is the author of the article “On the Uses of the Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students.” In the article‚ he describes how the students perk up during the evaluation of him as a teacher. The student evaluations commend him as being interesting and humerous which leads him into the rant about what he thinks of college students today. The article describes students as having “little
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type of learning? In the articles “On the Uses of a Liberal Education: As Lite Entertainment for Bored College Students” by Mark Edmundson‚ a professor at the University of Virginia‚ and “Scientific Habits of Mind in Virtual Worlds” by Constance Steinkuehler and Sean Duncan‚ who both teach at… two fairly opposite opinions on learning and today’s education are shared. Edmundson believes education has become about “creating more comfortable‚ less challenging environments” and that universities have a
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In the article "Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?" by Mark Edmundson narrates the experience of studying at college. Mark Edmundson says‚ that the first day of college is a major achievement not just for the students attending to their classes also an achievement for parents‚ grandparents‚ uncles‚ and aunts who helped to get at college. He says‚ education in America is a fight against the drugs‚ violence‚ slime-based culture and big fight against the institution and education is about finding
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Why Read Beowulf? By Robert F. Yeager Beowulf‚ the rousing Old English poem of man and monster‚ has been a classroom classic for generations. Its own survival as a text is nearly as epic as the story it tells. Beowulf’s presence among us reminds us upon what slender threads our knowledge of the past depends. Only through a series of extraordinary escapes has Beowulf come down to us. In the late 900s‚ two anonymous scribes wrote the story on parchment using West Saxon‚ a Germanic dialect dominant
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mind expending so much energy it allows the brain to develop more quickly when read or spoken to. Thinking back to when you were still an infant‚ you can still recall your earliest memories involving books or stories that you either read or were read to. Now jumping into the present‚ you can imagine that your reading habits from childhood to adult life may have changed drastically or not at all. Whether or not you were read to‚ every parent wants to see their child excel at reading comprehension because
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future lies‚ the we will never truly experience life to its full potential. With sitting back and allowing life to act as an external force is one extreme of the spectrum of ways to live your life‚ and a manic overexposure to options on the other‚ Edmundson argues for a golden mean. This middle ground involves both seeking new possibilities‚ and allowing yourself to fully experience those possibilities without neurotically planning the future. “Dwelling in Possibilities” claims that the mindset‚ exhibited
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Why Read the Old Testament? Why should we as Christians read the old testament? There are many reasons to read the Old Testament. One‚ Reading the Old Testament is like reading the beginning of a book and the New Testament is the end of that book. How can we understand the Plot‚ characters‚ and true meaning of the book if we only read the end of the book? We get confused‚ lost and not understanding what’s going on in that book. Therefore‚ we read the Old Testament. We as Christians need to read
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When you read a book or a story that was written long ago‚ you feel that you have been carried away into the time that the story was created. Literature is very diffferent around the world‚ every country has its different stories‚ even if they were written hundreds of years ago‚ or a few years ago.Literature written in the past is very important for us know‚ because it helps us understand what was going on during the time that the story was written. It allows us to know what our country or other
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