Editors' Introduction: Vision, Excellence, and the Values of Being Difficult

Pedagogy Apr 2005

Editors' Introduction: Vision, Excellence, and the Values of Being Difficult

Jennifer L. Holberg ; Marcy Taylor Liberal Arts University

Abstract

Don’t teach them writing. Don’t teach them reading. Teach them the habit of giving reasons for what they think, and explain how reading and writing can help them do that. If the basic goal of general education is instilling and exercising the habit of giving reasons, the apt way to characterize the larger commitment of education is that it should be diffi cult and, more exactly, that it is about intellectual diffi culty as something to be sought and about being diffi cult as a way to be. —James F. Slevin

Journal: Pedagogy
Published: 2005-04-01
DOI: 10.1215/15314200-5-2-167
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multilingual writers

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ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Governance. 2002.“Report.” Profession 2002: 211-28.

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Readings, Bill. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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Slevin, James F. 2002. “Keeping the University Occupied and Out of Trouble.” Profession 2002: 63-71.

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