''The Community of Scholars'' is a 1962 book about
higher education
Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after comple ...
by
Paul Goodman
Paul Goodman (1911–1972) was an American writer and public intellectual best known for his 1960s works of social criticism. Goodman was prolific across numerous literary genres and non-fiction topics, including the arts, civil rights, decen ...
with his observations on its function and proposals for its future.
The book influenced the
free university experiments of the
1960s counterculture.
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1962 non-fiction books
American non-fiction books
Books about higher education
Books about anarchism
Books by Paul Goodman
English-language books
Random House books
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