Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place

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Literary companions, book revi

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The university press of kentuc

Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place : The University Press of Kentucky : 9780813169026 : 081316902X : 13 Jun 2017 : Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades, arguing that it causes damage to both the land and the character of our communities. Education, he maintains, plays a central role in this obsession, inculcating in students' minds the American dream of moving up and moving on. Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, Jack R. Baker and Jeffrey Bilbro illuminate the influential thinker's vision for higher education in this pathbreaking study. Each chapter begins with an examination of one of Berry's fictional narratives and then goes on to consider how the passage inspires new ways of think

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