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Northrop Frye's Writings on Education

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2001

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This volume brings together 95 different pieces on education by Frye and touching on a range of subjects including teaching (from kindergarten to university), literary studies, the nature of the university, student radicalism, and educational policy.

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French Goldwin Sylvester :

Goldwin French is President Emeritus, Victoria University.Estate of Northrop Frye :

Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential English scholars and literary critics. Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria University in the University of Toronto from 1939 until his death. His works include Words with Power and Anatomy of Criticism.

O'Grady Jean :

Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria College, University of Toronto.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Preface

    xiii
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    Credits

    xvii
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    Abbreviations

    xxi
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    Introduction

    xxiii
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    1. The Bob

    1
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    2. Victoria College Debating Parliament

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    3. That Trinity Debate

    8
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    4. The Case against Examinations

    10
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    5. Arthur Richard Cragg

    14
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    6. On the Frosh: An Editorial

    17
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    7. Editorial in Undress (I)

    21
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    8. James Delmer Martin

    23
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    9. The Question of Maturity: An Editorial

    26
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    10. Editorial in Undress (II)

    29
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    11. Editorial in Undress (III)

    31
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    12. The Pass Course: A Polemic

    34
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    13. A Liberal Education

    40
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    14. Education and the Humanities

    50
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    15. Back to Work

    53
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    16. For Whom the Dunce Cap Fits

    55
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    17. Have We a National Education?

    57
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    18. The Study of English in Canada

    59
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    19. Address to the Graduating Class of Victoria College

    66
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    20. Humanities in a New World

    69
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    21. Greetings from the Principal

    86
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    22. By Liberal Things

    88
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    23. Senior Dinner Address

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    24. The Critical Discipline

    106
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    25. Dialogue Begins

    117
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    26. Push-Button Gadgets May Help— But the Teacher Seems Here to Stay

    120
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    27. Autopsy on an Old Grad's Grievance

    123
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    28. Introduction to Design for Learning

    127
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    29. The Developing Imagination

    143
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    30. To the Class of '62 at Queen's

    160
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    31. The Changing Pace in Canadian Education

    166
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    32. The Dean of Women

    177
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    33. Convocation Address, University of British Columbia

    179
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    34. The Principal's Message

    185
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    35. We Are Trying to Teach a Vision of Society

    187
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    36. Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship

    192
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    37. Foreword to The Living Name

    207
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    38. Education—Protection against Futility

    210
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    39. The Classics and the Man of Letters

    215
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    40. Charles Bruce Sissons, 1879-1965

    222
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    41. New Programmes

    225
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    42. Report on the "Adventures" Readers

    227
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    43. Speculation and Concern

    242
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    44. The Time of the Flood

    259
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    45. The Instruments of Mental Production

    261
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    46. Speech at a Freshman Welcome

    279
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    47. The Knowledge of Good and Evil

    281
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    48. A New Principal for Victoria

    297
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    49. The Question of "Success"

    299
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    50. A Meeting of Minds

    306
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    51. Higher Education and Personal Life

    308
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    52. The University and the Heroic Vision

    311
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    53. Convocation Address, Franklin and Marshall

    317
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    54. Book Learning and Barricades

    324
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    55. The Social Importance of Literature

    326
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    56. Research and Graduate Education in the Humanities

    335
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    57. The Ethics of Change: The Role of the University

    345
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    58. The University and Personal Life: Student Anarchism and the Educational Contract

    360
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    59. An Ideal University Community

    379
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    60. In Memoriam: Miss Jessie Macpherson

    382
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    61. The Day of Intellectual Battle: Reflections on Student Unrest

    384
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    62. Convocation Address, York University

    389
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    63. Congratulatory Statement to Dartmouth

    394
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    64. Hart House Rededicated

    395
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    65. On Horace

    400
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    66. A Revolution Betrayed: Freedom and Necessity in Education

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    67. The Definitiaon of a University

    406
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    68. Education and the Rejection of Reality

    422
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    69. On Teaching Literature

    432
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    70. Wright Report (I)

    462
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    71. Wright Report (II)

    464
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    72. Universities and the Deluge of Cant

    465
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    73. The Critic and the Writer

    470
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    74. Foreword to The Child as Critic

    476
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    75. Preface to ADE and ADFL Bulletins

    479
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    76. Address at the Installation of Gordon Keyes as Principal of Victoria College

    481
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    77. Presidential Address at the MLA

    483
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    78. Reminiscences

    494
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    79. The Teacher's Source of Authority

    496
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    80. Address on Receiving the Royal Bank Award

    507
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    81. Installation Address as Chancellor

    517
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    82. The Chancellor's Message

    523
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    83. Criticism as Education

    525
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    84. The Beginning of the Word

    539
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    85. Installation of Alvin A. Lee

    551
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    86. The View from Here

    553
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    87. The Authority of Learning

    568
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    88. Language as the Home of Human Life

    577
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    89. On Living inside Real Life

    591
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    90. Farewell to Goldwin French

    593
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    91. Foreword to English Studies at Toronto

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    92. Preface to On Education

    599
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    93. Preface to From Cobourg to Toronto

    607
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    94. Unpublished Introduction to Beyond Communication

    611
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    95. Woman Heads University

    616
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    Appendix. Educational Pieces Omitted from The Collected Works

    617
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    Notes

    619
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    Emendations

    647
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    Index

    651
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January 9, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9781442677913
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This book is in the series
Collected Works of Northrop Frye
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442677913
eBook ISBN: 9781442677913
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