Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education [Paperback]

Higher education Graff offers a highly readable and down-to-earth perspective on some of the most ballyhooed issues in higher education today. . . . By encouraging us to argue together, he may yet help us to reason together. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Engaging, hopeful, and persuasive. Everyone to whom universities matter should read Graff provides a useful analysis of the widespread incoherence in university education today, and even more importantly, some practical proposals for overcoming it. His idea of learning communities, based not on artificial consensus but on engaged argument, is most promising.