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The first intelligent book written about what the educational process has the capacity to accomplish. Andrew Sigler, former CEO of Champion International and former member of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College Prince's message is of particular relevance in today's fractured and dangerous world....Education is a fundamental force in the historical evolution of civilization in its broadest sense, encompassing a plethora of cultures and societies. This book is essential reading for educators at university level and of great benefit to the general reader concerned with the role of education in our changing society. Iqbal Riza, former Chief of Staff to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Amongst the many books on the rights and wrongs of higher education each year, occasionally one appears with the power to truly transform the landscape and all those who learn, labor, lead and live within it. Such is the book, "Teach Them to Challenge Authority: Educating for Healthy Societies "by Gregory Prince. He builds on a traditional foundation of liberal learning in educating for critical thinking and the spirit of inquiry, expanding its role to meet the challenges of the 21st century by advocating for important global issues, such as civil liberties - even when these impinge on controversial issues such as reproductive rights - and social justice....Gregory Prince shows the path ahead with clarity, elegance and with ideas and writing that will move anyone who reads this book. David K. Scott, Chancellor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst DO NOT USE."So it's a curious, at times moody, book. There is wisdom here, thoroughly anecdotal as it may be. And it is valuable for its international outlook. But it lacks the self-reflection it claims to want to instill in students. And the sentimentality of its arguments for teaching students to challenge authority fails to address crucial ideological and philosophical questions about the nature of institutional authority itself. In the end, I think this book will reward reading, but not always for the reasons the author had in mind." Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin--Sanford Lakoff During a lifetime in higher education Gregory Prince has learned that exceptional universities in America and abroad refuse to be neutral about the great moral issues of their time. Students deserve and demand that their institutions be as brave as they are. Mr. Prince certainly is, as he cogently and courageously presents the case for colleges to be involved in their communities and their country. He takes us to Africa, Australia and Europe to provide inspiring examples of how students and educators can respect and motivate each other to improve their societies. You can't put this book down, and you won't. Paul Gambaccini, BBC Radio
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Addressing the controversy surrounding political bias on American college campuses, the former President of Hampshire College presents a compelling argument against neutrality in higher education.
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Many conservatives argue the liberal bias of faculty in the United States is compromising the ability of universities to teach the art of critical thinking, which is so essential to challenging conventional wisdom and even challenging authority. They argue that the proper role of the liberal arts faculty and university is to maintain an institutional posture of neutrality in the face of major intellectual and social issues and, having laid out the main arguments about an issue, leave it up to the students to make up their own minds. If these advocates of "neutralism"-in and of itself a non-neutral position-succeed in transforming universities into neutral institutions, they will undermine the critical thinking they seek to support. They will damage the very character of US education that the rest of the world so admires and increasingly attempts to emulate-its capacity to encourage creativity and risk taking and to produce students who have the courage to challenge authority and convention in appropriate and constructive ways... To silence the university is to silence the citizenry. Our country and the world require from educational institutions commitment, engagement, and action, not neutrality.
Teach Them to Challenge Authority gets to the heart of what education should really be about. Drawing on decades of experience, Gregory S. Prince Jr. moves seamlessly between his experience as President of Hampshire college and the broader, bigger picture made up of national and international issues. He demonstrates that the debate between those who favor "neutral" universities and those who favor "engaged" ones could have radical consequences-not just for the world of education, but for society as a whole.
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