In the Basement of the Ivory Tower: Confessions of an Accidental Academic
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (852 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067002256X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Professor X has been teaching English composition and literature for ten years at two small colleges somewhere in America.
He finds himself on the front lines of America's academic crisis. This is the story of what he learns about his struggling pupils, about the college system-a business more bent on its own financial targets than the wellbeing of its students-about the classics he rediscovers, and about himself. It's quite an education. A caustic expose of the deeply state of our colleges-America's most expensive Ponzi scheme. Funny, wry, self-deprecating, and a provocative indictment of our failing schools, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower is both a brilliant academic satire and a poignant account of one teacher's seismic frustration-and unlikely salvation-as his real estate woes catapult him into a subprime crisis of an altogether more human nature.. As his house starts falling apart in every imaginable way, Professor X grabs first one, then two jobs teaching English 101 and 102-composition and literat
. About the AuthorProfessor X has been teaching English composition and literature for ten years at two small colleges somewhere in America
Magazine Article Expanded into a Book Albigensian This book is an expanded version of an article of the same title that was published in the June, 2008 issue of The Atlantic Magazine. Overall, the book does not have much to say that was not said in the magazine article. It does digress at some length in. Telling it like it is Elizabeth Barry Like Professor X, I have taught writing for years at a community college (five years to be precise). I don't now teach in the classroom; I work in a writing center. But I did teach in a classroom for three semesters. I admire Professor X's perseverance i. Enjoyable, But Ignores the Elephant in the Room In the Basement of the Ivory Tower was both more and less than I expected.I didn't expect "Professor X" to recount so much of his life outside the classroom, and I was surprised to find that I related as much to his personal as to his academic story. Unl