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Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all have a tendency to think alike? What makes it so difficult for colleges to choose which themes should be needed? Why do professors and scholars find it so hard to transcend the limits with their disciplines? Why, in a nutshell, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Louis Menand argues, is usually that the institutional structure and the educational idea of higher education have remained the same for just one hundred years, while faculties and learner physiques have radically evolved and technology has dramatically transformed just how people produce and disseminate knowledge. At a time when competition to get into and flourish in college hasn't been more extreme, universities are providing a less-useful education. Sparking a long-overdue question about the future of American education, The Market place of Ideas examines what professors and students―and all the rest of us―might be better off without, while examining what it will probably be worth saving inside our traditional university corporations.
