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In contrast to the Chinese, who clung to the belief in their own cultural superiority despite repeated European humiliations, the Japanese decided early to learn the barbarians' ways. They sent inquiring envoys abroad and hired many foreign experts. Some of the lessons were basic. The Meiji rulers abolished feudalism...
In another sense, these men and women in white are indissolubly wed to each other and to the reader. It is not hard to see why. Most people begin and end in a hospital. They are born and give birth there, and they will probably die there, intubated and twilighted...
Political pressure of this kind has never been far from the campus, but the overwhelming influence on U.S. education has been not politics but economics: the need for a technologically trained managerial caste. The very first Land Grant Act, in 1862, handed out 30,000 acres per Congressman for the...
Sennett's earliest books on the conflicts of urban life suffered from a surfeit of youthful idealism, but he struck a more original lode in The Fall of Public Man (1977). In the 18th century, according to his theory, men enjoyed a public life that was quite different from...
Proctoring means keeping an open mind" also kept popping up at the orientation sessions, but as the hordes march back from their first encounter with Sebastion Sandwiches at the Union, the caste lines are already becoming clear. A quick primer on how the nation's eleventh grade elite arranges itself...