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The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to have played an important part in breaking the mold in which america was cast and in. Intellectualism� is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents;
It has become formidable in our education partly because our educational.
Anti intellectualism in american life quotes. There is a cult of ignorance in the united states, and there always has been. It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality. And a character regularly to diminish the worth of that life.
Our own individual experience and growing collective insight provide us considerable understanding. First got its strong grip on our ways of thinking because it was fostered by an evangelical religion that also purveyed many humane and democratic sentiments. It made its way into our politics because it became associated with our passion for equality.
In a certain sense, the suspicious tories and militant philistines are right: In a certain sense, the suspicious tories and. Left free, there is nothing it will.
In using the terms play and playfulness, i do not intend to suggest any lack of seriousness; Intellectualism� is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; This paper examines the earliest period of american higher education, the period of the traditional college, when the humanities, and especially literature and language, reigned supreme as curricular subjects and when college students were.
The intellectual as ideologist, having had a leading role in purveying to the country each innovation and having frequently hastened the country into the acceptance of change, is naturally felt to have played an important part in breaking the mold in which america was cast and in. Written with all the learning, wit, and sophistication that one has learnt to expect from professor hofstadter, this book brings together a mass of illuminating information about an aspect of american development which historians have not hitherto examined in any detail. In a certain sense, the suspicious tories and militant philistines are right:
Posted on 24 february 2017 by mark r. “to those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. First got its strong grip on our ways of thinking because it was fostered by an evangelical religion that also purveyed many humane and democratic sentiments.
It is a book which throws light on many features of the american character. “to those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. It has become formidable in our education partly because our educational.
Higher education as an institution by john w.