Can Liberal Education Be Saved?
Jeremy S. Adams. Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2021. The 1989 classic coming-of-age film Dead Poets Society follows a simple…
Jeremy S. Adams. Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2021. The 1989 classic coming-of-age film Dead Poets Society follows a simple…
A New History of the Humanities: The Search for Principles and Patterns from Antiquity to the Present. Rens Bod. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. A New…
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. There is…
The ascendency of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subject matter in American higher education has largely displaced the previous model, liberal education. But this displacement raises…
In Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky finds himself lying injured in the grass after barely surviving his first battle against Napoleon’s forces. As he…
The liberal arts have long been suffering in academia and education more generally. Chants for the ending of Western liberal arts for new inclusionary material, dwindling humanities…
Everything is Political Just as I began my college teaching career thirty years ago, the whole academy seemed to have accepted as axiomatic the assertion that “Everything…
Music transcends the classroom, the concert stage, and professional recordings. It pervades life. Mankind has long used music in all sorts of ways, to celebrate, to lament,…
The purpose of higher education in the United States is one of constant change. From the establishment of Harvard College to the multi-purpose universities of today, higher…
St. John’s College and the Great Books Program here at Mercer University have much in common. Both programs revolve around a set of great works of Western…
The question of how the Western ideal of liberal education fits with Asian cultures is longstanding.[1][2] Our present time is one characterized by an opening up between…
Politicizing the classroom corrupts the academic virtues encouraging us to forget what the idea of the university is, what is its animating spirit, what fundamental experience it…
This is James Greenaway's presentation about his book, Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts, at the 2020 Eric Voegelin Society…
Liberal education is the individual assimilation of cultural memory: we recover the historical and metaphysical ground of our being by studying the accumulated riches of the past.…
This chapter proposes an alternative to contemporary liberal education, by specifying a form of liberal arts education that is fit for the 21st century. We begin with…