“[Y]ou see professors from a great distance, in space as well as culture: from the back of a vast dark auditorium, full of your peers checking Facebook on their laptops.”

In reviewing a bunch of new books about the American university, UD‘s friend Anthony Grafton provides a phenomenology of the contemporary campus.

Margaret Soltan, 6:52AM
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2 Responses to ““[Y]ou see professors from a great distance, in space as well as culture: from the back of a vast dark auditorium, full of your peers checking Facebook on their laptops.””

  1. Bill Gleason Says:
    November 6th, 2011 at 8:38AM

    A very good overview of the mess we’re in.

  2. Michael McNabb, Attorney Says:
    November 6th, 2011 at 12:38PM

    Grafton asks for writers to “describe some universities and coleges, in detail, with all their defects. For some questions that such writers should consider see Questions of Value at http://ptable.blogspot.com/2011/10/questions-of-value-real-issue-is.html#links.

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