A Sixty-Year Ride through the World of Education depicts the author's educational pursuits from elementary school to provost. Learning is followed by teaching and writing and, soon, academic administration. Interspersed among these thirty-three short autobiographical sections are fourteen others that deal directly and practically with educational topics. This short work is a rich introduction to the world of education in the last half-century.

"Weingartner lived through decades of the publish-or-perish policy, both in its positive and negative forms, mandatory retirement ages for professors, and several of the very strange and arcane rites known as choosing a new college president. The result here is an accessible and readable account of what it is to live a life of the mind while surrounded with administrative responsibilities that sometimes are the least intellectual things one can do without buying specially-made shoes. New professors, new administrators and new university board members, read this." - Book News, Inc.