From the Multiversity Cave: Conclusion
In this series of posts, we have reviewed what some prominent thinkers have taught us about today multiversity: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas presented us a new…
In this series of posts, we have reviewed what some prominent thinkers have taught us about today multiversity: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas presented us a new…
One of the recent movements in American education has been to make schools student-centered, whether from Montessori pre-schools to institutions of higher education: the values of independence,…
One of the present paradigms of the multiversity has been informed by mathematics and the natural sciences where methodology, standardization, and replicable data are the principles to…
In the previous essay I examined how Renaissance Humanism and the religious reformations can contribute to improving the multiversity as an institution that promotes the public good…
In the past essays I have spoken about one of the obstacles that today’s multiversity confronts: the creation of the conditions of genuine learning. The vast creation…
What I have been proposing so far has been a paradigm for the multiversity to adopt for its students, faculty, and administrators: to pursue truth instead of…
Thus far we have looked at three prominent thinkers who have offered us some ways to reform the multiversity so it can become an institution that pursues…
In my previous two essays, I wrote about how the ideas of periagoge and phronesis could be incorporated into the multiversity’s understanding of itself: an emphasis on…
In my last essay I wrote about how Plato could provide us a paradigm of periagoge and the methodology of dialectics for the multiversity, shifting students, faculty,…
What can Plato teach us about higher education today? At first glance, it would appear very little in an age of standardized assessment, digitized curricula, and competency-based…
Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University. James Axtell. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. Despite their humble origins, U.S. universities dominate the global rankings of elite…
American Heresies and Higher Education. Peter Augustine Lawler. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2016. American higher education is in a crisis of long duration, and…
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…
What Does Academic Mean? Two Essays on the Chances of the University. Josef Pieper. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press. This short book includes an excellent…
Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century So, my title is misleading. The basic content of and case for liberal education didn’t change when we moved from one…