What’s the purpose of education? Who gets access to it? When and where should it take place? How can we measure it? Will it get us a job? And is it even worth it, when it’s both expensive and time-consuming? Underlying the concerns above, all lies a worrisome muddle about what we even mean by “education”.
Scott Newstok, author of How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education , professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College, has the conviction is that education must be about thinking—not training a set of specific skills.
DKU Library is honored to co-host the following book talk, a special event of Book Fair 2022 featuring DKU faculty Dr. Selina Lai-Henderson. This event is co-organized by the Princeton University Press, the Wenzhou-Kean University Library, and Duke Kunshan University Library.
Time: 9 am – 11 am, April 28, Beijing Time
Language: English
Link: https://pupress.zoom.us/j/99652067439
Scott Newstok
Professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment, Rhodes College.
David S. Hogsette
Executive Director, School of English Studies, Wenzhou-Kean University
Selina Lai-Henderson
Assistant Professor of American Literature and History, Duke Kunshan University
