Stanley Fish’s “Save The World on Your Own Time” is what Publishers Weekly claims:
“To professors using their podium to politically influence or engage with their students, the author chides: Do your job, Don't try to do someone else's job and Don't let anyone else do your job—and offers refreshing takes on Ward Churchill, Bob Newhart and how writing ought to be taught.
Despite the repetitive reiteration of initial premises and a few rhetorical inconsistencies, Fish's penultimate chapter shows off his unconventional style in its
The NYT states:
“His prescription — that colleges should stick to introducing students to the tradition of academic knowledge and to equipping them with the analytical skills to be comfortable in that tradition — might end all the heated debates over political correctness, free speech and even whether universities should invest in tobacco companies or industries that exploit the third world. But he argues in a take-no-prisoners fashion that’s unlikely to win him converts among the audience he needs most — students and, especially, their parents.”
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