The Knowledge most worth having
edited by Wayne C. Booth.
- Chicago University of Chicago Press [1967]
- xi, 212 p.
"A publication of the seventy-fifth anniversary year of the University of Chicago." "Papers ... delivered at a five-day liberal arts conference sponsored by the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago."
Is there any knowledge that a man must have? By W. C. Booth.--Returning coals to Newcastle, by F. C. Ward.--The instruments of mental production, by N. Frye.--A transatlantic view of "what knowledge is worth having", by J. Cockcroft.--Undergraduates and the scientific enterprise, by J. A. Simpson.--Diversity, by J. R. Platt.--Education and the contemporary woman, by A. F. Scott.--Platonic education, by J. M. Redfield.--The battle of the books, by R. McKeon.--The role of a liberal arts college within a university, by E. H. Levi.