September 19, 2008
How Good Scholarship Makes Good Citizens
In a Chronicle piece in 2003, Stanley Fish wrote that we academics should not use our classes to "save the world." Rather, we should turn our undergraduates into scholars by transmitting knowledge and teaching them how to evaluate it. In a new book, Save the World on Your Own Time, he again argues that the job of the university — and, by extension, that of the faculty — is not to "transform" students or the larger society, although both might be "transformed" as a
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