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ERIC Number: EJ108077
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Publication Date: 1974
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Some Ill-Tempered Reflections on the Present State of Higher Education in the United States
Else, Gerald F.
Daedalus, 103, 4, 138-142, F 74
The three large problems in American higher education discussed in this article are 1) increasing uncertainity about the purpose of higher education; 2) increasing emphasis on passive study of abstractions; and 3) increasing monolingualism, a symbol a ethnocentrism or American "hybris." (JH)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Ethnocentrism, General Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Intellectual Disciplines, Process Education, Relevance (Education), Social Sciences
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