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Summary
Summary
Bok concludes that the competition for the best students, the most advanced scholarship, the most successful scientific research, the best facilities--has helped to produce venturesome, adaptable, and varied universities. But because the process of learning itself is imperfectly understood, it is difficult to achieve sustained progress in the quality of education or even to determine which educational innovations actually enhance learning.
Author Notes
Writer, attorney and educator Derek C. Bok was educated at both Stanford University and Harvard University.
Bok became a professor, then dean at Harvard Law School, and finally president of Harvard University. He was also a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the chair of the board of overseers for the Curtis Institute of Music.
Bok writes about education in the United States in his books, Beyond the Ivory Tower and Higher Learning.
(Bowker Author Biography)
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Library Journal Review
In this readable assessment of contemporary American higher education, the president of Harvard comments on what is right and wrong with the teaching and learning processes at the major research universities. With refreshing frankness Bok raises a number of provocative topics, such as the double-edged sword of colleges' competition for everything from athletics to government grants, and professional schools' neglect of the teaching of ethics. Weighing the pros and cons of new trends such as life-long professional education and the computer revolution, Bok considers their long-range impact on tradition-bound institutions of higher learning. He is realistic about the many problems facing higher education, and optimistic about its future. A solid purchase for collections where there is an interest in higher education. Patricia Smith Butcher, Trenton State Coll. Lib., N.J. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
