Are You Smart Enough?: How Colleges' Obsession with Smartness Shortchanges Students

by Alexander W. Astin

Book Overview

This book explores the many ways in which the obsession with "being smart" distorts the life of a typical college or university, and how this obsession leads to a higher education that shortchanges the majority of students, and by extension, our society's need for an educated population. The author calls on his colleagues in higher education to return the focus to the true mission of developing the potential of each student: However "smart" they...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620364484
• ISBN13: 9781620364482
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"