Friday, December 9, 2011

What we mean by a liberal education

"Like the Catholic Church on the eve of the Reformation, the university sector in the United States is a vast, ramshackle social formation embracing the clever and the stupid, the idealist and the cynic, the vocationally driven and the idle drone. ... The thought that the provision of non-degrees by non-universities might be the modern equivalent of the sale of indulgences has major consequences for what we mean by a liberal education."

--Jonathan Clark, The Times Literary Supplement (December 2, 2011), p. 9

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