Sublime

twenty pages in length during the entire year.

What the student needed above all was the chance to learn to think for himself. So he ought to pursue the line of investigation that interested him most, just as, conversely, a professor ought to be perfectly free to devote his own efforts however he chose. One term, a course of twenty-one lectures was offered on sharks alone, a favorite topic of t

to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh

In a recent book, he argues that many of the students currently enrolled are simply not capable of performing college-level work.

No one yet has managed to measure how well our professors teach or how much our students learn, let alone compare the results with those of other nations.

From 1961 to 2004, according to a series of self-reports from large samples of students, the average amount of time that