Seeking the North Star : selected speeches
- Author/Creator:
- Silber, John, 1926-2012
- Publication/Creation:
- Boston : David R. Godine, Publisher, 2014
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- Seeking the North Star : selected speeches / by John R. Silber ; with a foreword by Tom Wolfe
- Uniform Title:
- Speeches. Selections
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Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- The pollution of time -- A tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The humanities, the crucible of higher education -- The tremble factor -- The thicket of law and the marsh of conscience -- Generations on generations -- The myth of overqualification -- Democracy: its counterfeits and its promise -- By the rivers of Babylon -- The next parish over -- The university and the defense of freedom -- Stretching the envelope -- Seeking the North Star -- Parents' convocation -- Multiculturalism true and false -- Obedience to the unenforceable -- The need for honesty in confronting history -- Character education East and West -- Such stuff as dreams are made on -- Drinking the sun of Corinth -- Procedure or dogma: the core of liberalism -- Roadblocks to education reform -- Education and spiritual formation -- Ethics and corporate responsibility -- Life is a series of surprises -- Science vs. scientism -- The choices are ours.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xliii, 305 pages ; 24 cm
- General Note:
- Includes index.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 990033820420302486
- ISBN:
- 9781567925074 (alk. paper)
1567925073 (alk. paper) - OCLC Number:
- 849211191
- Barcode:
- 010002720566
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