9780226038476-0226038475-Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning

Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning

ISBN-13: 9780226038476
ISBN-10: 0226038475
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 229 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226038476
ISBN-10: 0226038475
Author: Jacques Barzun
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 229 pages

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Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (ISBN-13: 9780226038476 and ISBN-10: 0226038475), written by authors Jacques Barzun, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Instruction Methods (Schools & Teaching) books. You can easily purchase or rent Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Instruction Methods books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In this powerful, eloquent, and timely book, Jacques Barzun offers guidance for resolving the crisis in America's schools and colleges. Drawing on a lifetime of distinguished teaching, he issues a clear call to action for improving what goes on in America's classrooms. The result is an extraordinarily fresh, sensible, and practical program for better schools.

"It is difficult to imagine a more pungent, perceptive or eloquent commentary on contemporary American education than this collection of 15 pieces by Jacques Barzun."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World

"Mr. Barzun's style is elegant, distinctive, philosophically consistent and much better-humored than that of many contemporary invective-hurlers."—David Alexander, New York Times Book Review

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