ACTA's Must-Reads
« What is the Purposeful University? | Main | The State of the Liberal Arts College »
The Purpose of the Liberal Arts
"The purpose of a liberal education is fairly easy to state. One element of that is transmitting and imparting information about what's been thought and said. And not only the best that's been thought and said but also the worst. That's part: who we are and where we've come from. We want to furnish the mind. And, we want to cultivate students' capacity to think for themselves. That's connected to a third part: liberal arts are connected to freedom and free society. Liberal education presupposes that it's good to have citizens whose minds have been furnished and who have the ability to think for themselves" - Peter Berkowitz
Posted by Michael Pomeranz on November 05, 2010 at November 5, 2010 01:24 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.goactablog.org/blog/mt-tb.cgi/853