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...warning against a "retreat into self-interest"--a not-so-thinly veiled reference to growing pre-professionalism. He says in the book's first essay. "The Private University and the Public Interest," that "the purpose of education, as opposed to information, is to lead us to some sense of citizenship, to some shared assumptions about individual freedoms and institutional needs..." He then bemoans the move "away from an education concerned at heart with ethical choice and civic effort and toward a view of schooling as immediately, intensely, insistently useful...
...false separateness between social research and policy making, thinking and politics, ideas and power." Giamatti's sole obsession in these essays--aside from a peculiar affinity to the word "assert," which he uses about once per page--seems to be the importance of education in developing a sense of citizenship. Referring to Plato's Statesman he writes that "education furthers the weaving of the web of the state, meshing as in a tapestry the various type of citizens...
...former Harvard dean and former Executive Director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs, Tufts University...
...lectureship and Institute are named for the late sociologist William E. B. DuBois, a Black civil rights leader of the 20th century, who died in 1960 after joining the Communist party and renouncing his U.S. citizenship. DuBois earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1895 and helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
Only in 1963, at the urging of his father, George Papandreou, then leader of the Center Union Party, did Andreas-as he is familiarly known to all Greeks-return to his native land and develop an interest in politics. Shortly thereafter he renounced his U.S. citizenship. Says Athens Publisher Helen Vlachos, a longtime foe: "His is the anti-Americanism of an American, not of a Greek. He is like a Viet Nam War protester...