Book: Why The Professor Can't Teach.

Up to Chapter 2

Chapter 3: The Nature of Current Mathematical Research.

Chapter 4: The Conflict Between Research and teaching.

Chapter 5: The Debasement of Undergraduate Teaching.

Chapter 6: The Illiberal Mathematician.

Chapter 7: The Undefiled Mathematician.

Chapter 8: The Misdirection of High School Education.

Chapter 9: Some Light at the Beginning of the Tunnel - Elementary Education.

Chapter 10: Follies of the Marketplace: A Tirade on Tents.

Chapter 11: Some Mandatory Reforms.

Bibliography and Index





Important Note!

The title of this book, which seems to cast aspersions on the competence of professors, is misleading. The author submitted a dozen or so more appropriate titles but the publisher was intransigent. Obviously he wished to trade on the name of his earlier publication WHY JOHNNY CAN'T ADD , which had wide recognition.

As the author's wife and sometime secretary, I can testify that Morris Kline was keenly unhappy with the publisher's choice. This book is not an attack on professors but is rather a wide-ranging critique of undergraduate education. Indeed an appropriate, less jazzy title would have been A CRITIQUE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION .

Helen M. Kline

I am very grateful for the kind permission of Professor Kline's widow, Mrs Helen Kline to use the material on this section of my website.

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