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What the Best College Students Do

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Description for What the Best College Students Do Hardback. The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of their education. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. Use these four years to cultivate habits of thought that enable learning, growth, and adaptation throughout life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JNM; JNZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 474.

The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too.

The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives.

Combining academic research on learning and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
474g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674066649
SKU
V9780674066649
Shipping Time
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Ref
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About Ken Bain
Ken Bain is President of the Best Teachers Institute and a former professor of history at Northwestern, Vanderbilt, the University of Texas, and New York University.

Reviews for What the Best College Students Do
Some very good books are worth reading for a few splendid pages alone. Ken Bain’s What the Best College Students Do is one such book. His interview with the TV satirist Stephen Colbert is revealing both for its insight into Colbert and for its ideas on how higher education ought to work… What the Best College Students Do combines interviews ... Read more

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