978-1-58838-088-3
1-58838-088-2
5 3/8" x 8 3/8"
158 pages
$22.00 hardcover
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, the recently retired president of
Queens College. 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.
about the author
Billy O. Wireman studied at Georgetown College of Kentucky, joined the
Marine Corps, and then did graduate study at the University of Kentucky,
where he was also an assistant basketball coach. Wireman earned a
doctorate in education from Vanderbilt University's Peabody School of
Education in 1960, and joined the faculty of Florida Presbyterian
College (now Eckerd College), where he later served as Dean, Vice
President, and President. In 1978, he became president of Queens
College in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he served until his
retirement in 2002.
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