The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell – PDF download — 9781888173949

[Charlie Campbell]

The Gift of Fire
by Richard Mitchell

🔗 The Gift of Fire : CLICK HERE 🔗

• Author: Richard Mitchell
• Publisher: Akadine Press
• ISBN: 9781888173949 (1888173947)
• Genres: philosophy, education, writing
• Release date: March 28, 2000
• Language: english
• Format: paperback, 188 pages

About The Book

Twenty-odd years ago, Richard Mitchell, a professor at New Jersey’s Glassboro State College, set out on a quixotic pursuit: the rescue of the English language and the minds of those attached to the world by it. Donning cape and mask as “The Underground Grammarian,” Mitchell sallied forth upon his newsletter against the nonsense being spoken, written, and, indeed, encouraged by the educational establishment. (“One thing led to another,” as he tells it, “a front page piece in The Wall Street Journal, a proÞle in Time, and other such. Before it was over, The Underground Grammarian came to be, in the world of desktop printing, the Þrst publication to have subscribers on every continent except Antarctica.”) What began as a vivid catalog of ignorance and inanity in the written work of professional educators and their hapless students soon became an enterprise of most noble moment: an investigation, via mordant wit and Þerce intelligence, of “what we might usefully decide to mean by ‘education.’” The results of Mitchell’s inquiries are as stimulating today as they were when Þrst articulated. His project remains a telling explication of how, through writing, we discover thought and make knowledge. It is certainly the most drolly entertaining.

Online The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell buy cheap PocketBook on Walmart. Hardcover ebook The Gift of Fire download. PDF book The Gift of Fire Richard Mitchell read on Barnes & Noble.

MP3 The Gift of Fire on PC. EPUB book The Gift of Fire read online for Mac on Booktopia. MOBI ebook The Gift of Fire by Richard Mitchell download.

[Julkaisija]

Artikkelit