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The student : a short history / Michael S. Roth.

By: Roth, Michael S, 1957- [author.]Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2023] Description: 202 pages illustrationsISBN: 9780300274837; 9780300250039Subject(s): Students -- History | College students -- HistoryAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Student.LOC classification: LB3607. | R68 2023LA174
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Iconic teachers, exemplary students -- Chapter 2: Children, apprentices, students: learning independence -- Chapter 3: The emergence of the modern student -- Chapter 4: The student in college: growing up is hard to do -- Chapter 5: Thinking for oneself by learning from others -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom. In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Iconic teachers, exemplary students -- Chapter 2: Children, apprentices, students: learning independence -- Chapter 3: The emergence of the modern student -- Chapter 4: The student in college: growing up is hard to do -- Chapter 5: Thinking for oneself by learning from others -- Notes -- Index.

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom In this sweeping book, Michael S. Roth narrates a vivid and dynamic history of students, exploring some of the principal models for learning that have developed in very different contexts, from the sixth century BCE to the present. Beginning with the followers of Confucius, Socrates, and Jesus and moving to medieval apprentices, students at Enlightenment centers of learning, and learners enrolled in twenty-first-century universities, he explores how students have been followers, interlocutors, disciples, rebels, and children becoming adults. There are many ways to be a student, Roth argues, but at their core is developing the capacity to think for oneself by learning from others, and thereby finding freedom. In an age of machine learning, this book celebrates the student who develops more than mastery, cultivating curiosity, judgment, creativity, and an ability to keep learning beyond formal schooling. Roth shows how the student throughout history has been someone who interacts dynamically with the world, absorbing its lessons and creatively responding to them.