Thr following essay describes the quality of humanities education in America and offers advice for change. Great for ANYONE who wants ideas about "what constitutes good pedagogy."

As I creep ever closer to the terminus of the undergraduate program in English education, feelings of felicity abound in the depths of my soul as I contemplate the opportunities that I will have to positively impact myriad young lives, helping them to grow as thinkers, writers, interpersonal communicators, readers, and as people as they prepare to enter a workforce and a society that demands multi-faceted talents and multi-dimensional abilities to communicate with an increasingly …

…a vice; however, it is not a squeeze that injures, but one that encourages, that empowers, that emancipates. Emancipation from ignorance and from suppression is the key to education - students must be shown how to live freely in a free society, and not be captives in a captive society, because, as they must understand, democracy can be both a mother and a monster, nurturing to some, nefarious to many others, reducing them to nothingness!