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Like Shooting Rapids in the Dark NewSouth Books No issue is more central to the American experiment today than education. And few people know more about education than Billy O. Wireman, a former president of Queens University of Charlotte. This book consists of selections from his writing and thinking from over forty years in education, a field in which he has become internationally known as a visionary. Wireman communicates an intense sense of where American education needs to go and a keen sense of how to get there. Wireman's book is for anyone seriously interested in what every citizens should be interested in: education and the construction of the future. Wireman writes about education not as a disembodied abstraction but from the perspective of one who has thought about it, lived within it, and put it into practice. Modest, self-deprecating, and self-critical, Billy O. Wireman personifies passion for students, teachers, and education. Not everyone will embrace his ideas, but we would all be poorer without them. As surely as the sun will rise, America's democratic experiment will fail if we lose sight of what education can and must do. Anyone seriously interested in education—and that should be everyone—will profit from Billy Wireman's insights, arguments, and vision.
Reviews “Money is important, but the measure of a school is not its balance sheet, but its success in teaching and learning. An avid reader, writer, traveler, and teacher, Wireman might well be the model for the school he led: insatiably curious, pragmatic, yet adventuresome, eager to meet new challenges but rooted in enduring values.” “Collaboratively edited by Richard Goode (McMahon Professor of English and Chair of Queens University English department) and Robert Whalen (Carolyn G. and Sam H. McMahon, Jr., Professor of History and Chair of Queens University's history department), Like Shooting Rapids In The Dark is an informed and informative collection of writings on education by Billy O. Wireman, the former president of the Queens University. Wireman's wisdom on the role of liberal arts education today and in the future, guarding against overspecialization as a form of ‘illiteracy’ with regard to everything except one narrow niche, how people have readied themselves for a productive career throughout history up to the modern day, and more. Like Shooting Rapids In The Dark is highly recommended for its unique insights into the role colleges have to play in shaping a new generation of minds in the years to come.”
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