Northrop Frye's Writings on Education

This volume brings together 95 different pieces on education by Frye and touching on a range of subjects including teaching (from kindergarten to university), literary studies, the nature of the university, student radicalism, and educational policy.

The late Northrop Frye was a professor in the Department of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Jean O'Grady is associate editor of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Goldwin French is President Emeritus, Victoria University.

Preface

xiii

Credits

xvii

Abbreviations

xxi

Introduction

xxiii

The Bob

3

(2)

Victoria College Debating Parliament

5

(3)

That Trinity Debate

8

(2)

The Case against Examinations

10

(4)

Arthur Richard Cragg

14

(3)

On the Frosh: An Editorial

17

(4)

Editorial in Undress (I)

21

(2)

James Delmer Martin

23

(3)

The Question of Maturity: An Editorial

26

(3)

Editorial in Undress (II)

29

(2)

Editorial in Undress (III)

31

(3)

The Pass Course: A Polemic

34

(6)

A Liberal Education

40

(10)

Education and the Humanities

50

(3)

Back to Work

53

(2)

For Whom the Dunce Cap Fits

55

(2)

Have We a National Education?

57

(2)

The Study of English in Canada

59

(7)

Address to the Graduating Class of Victoria College

66

(3)

Humanities in a New World

69

(17)

Greetings from the Principal

86

(2)

By Liberal Things

88

(15)

Senior Dinner Address

103

(3)

The Critical Discipline

106

(11)

Dialogue Begins

117

(3)

Push-Button Gadgets May Help---But the Teacher Seems Here to Stay

120

(3)

Autopsy on an Old Grad's Grievance

123

(4)

Introduction to Design for Learning

127

(16)

The Developing Imagination

143

(17)

To the Class of '62 at Queen's

160

(6)

The Changing Pace in Canadian Education

166

(11)

The Dean of Women

177

(2)

Convocation Address, University of British Columbia

179

(6)

The Principal's Message

185

(2)

We Are Trying to Teach a Vision of Society

187

(5)

Elementary Teaching and Elemental Scholarship

192

(15)

Foreword to The Living Name

207

(3)

Education---Protection against Futility

210

(5)

The Classics and the Man of Letters

215

(7)

Charles Bruce Sissons, 1879--1965

222

(3)

New Programmes

225

(2)

Report on the ``Adventures'' Readers

227

(15)

Speculation and Concern

242

(17)

The Time of the Flood

259

(2)

The Instruments of Mental Production

261

(18)

Speech at a Freshman Welcome

279

(2)

The Knowledge of Good and Evil

281

(16)

A New Principal for Victoria

297

(2)

The Question of ``Success''

299

(7)

A Meeting of Minds

306

(2)

Higher Education and Personal Life

308

(3)

The University and the Heroic Vision

311

(6)

Convocation Address, Franklin and Marshall

317

(7)

Book Learning and Barricades

324

(2)

The Social Importance of Literature

326

(9)

Research and Graduate Education in the Humanities

335

(10)

The Ethics of Change: The Role of the University

345

(15)

The University and Personal Life: Student Anarchism and the Educational Contract

360

(19)

An Ideal University Community

379

(3)

In Memoriam: Miss Jessie Macpherson

382

(2)

The Day of Intellectual Battle: Reflections on Student Unrest

384

(5)

Convocation Address, York University

389

(5)

Congratulatory Statement to Dartmouth

394

(1)

Hart House Rededicated

395

(5)

On Horace

400

(1)

A Revolution Betrayed: Freedom and Necessity in Education

401

(5)

The Definition of a University

406

(16)

Education and the Rejection of Reality

422

(10)

On Teaching Literature

432

(30)

Wright Report (I)

462

(2)

Wright Report (II)

464

(1)

Universities and the Deluge of Cant

465

(5)

The Critic and the Writer

470

(6)

Foreword to The Child as Critic

476

(3)

Preface to ADE and ADFL Bulletins

479

(2)

Address at the Installation of Gordon Keyes as Principal of Victoria College

481

(2)

Presidential Address at the MLA

483

(11)

Reminiscences

494

(2)

The Teacher's Source of Authority

496

(11)

Address on Receiving the Royal Bank Award

507

(10)

Installation Address as Chancellor

517

(6)

The Chancellor's Message

523

(2)

Criticism as Education

525

(14)

The Beginning of the Word

539

(12)

Installation of Alvin A. Lee

551

(2)

The View from Here

553

(15)

The Authority of Learning

568

(9)

Language as the Home of Human Life

577

(14)

On Living inside Real Life

591

(2)

Farewell to Goldwin French

593

(2)

Foreword to English Studies at Toronto

595

(4)

Preface to On Education

599

(8)

Preface to From Cobourg to Toronto

607

(4)

Unpublished Introduction to Beyond Communication

611

(5)

Woman Heads University

616

(1)

Appendix: Educational Pieces Omitted from This Volume

617

(2)

Notes

619

(28)

Emendations

647

(4)

Index

651

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