How
our universities
forgot the universals.
The flight from teaching in favor of research. the tendency
toward 'overspecialization. the rise of "academic
fundamentalism: ' the obsession with getting published–
these are among the major weaknesses historian and
educator Page Smith sees in American higher education. In
this groundbreaking and controversial book. Smith traces the
evolution of higher education. arguing passionately for
sweeping reforms that would allow academics to address the
Big Questions-and make teaching a primary goal.
Partisan R eview
Published at Boston University
