Jacob Riyeff asks how higher education can achieve its aim of scrutinizing reality when students don’t even seem to recognize ...

A liberal arts education means something, and colleges that slash programs should stop using the term in their promises to students, Christopher A. Snyder writes. Last month, as he presided over the ...

New graduates: Your liberal education has given you tremendous power, and with it comes great responsibility. You are now equipped to be persuasive communicators — whether you're a scientist ...

In recent months, those of us who care about the humanist tradition in education have watched with dismay as right-wing politicians clear space for what they dubiously call “traditional ...

On the very first page of her slim new book, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, the philosopher Martha Nussbaum warns, “We are in a crisis of massive proportions and grave ...

Other defenders of liberal education say that it teaches a way of thinking that is at once rational, empathetic, honest, fair-minded and courageous (Barry Schwartz, “What ‘Learning How to ...

My former student sent me a recent column published in Newsweek by its editor, Jon Meacham, on “liberal education,” the basics of which the students are supposed to receive here at Georgetown. The ...

Let's get back to the basics. 1. Yes, teach the great tradition. In the debate about what liberal arts means, there are two major schools: the traditionalists and the modernists.

Our modern understanding of education first arose in the 12th century when a pope mandated schools at every cathedral, which created the humanist traditions committed to developing the character ...

In the early 1970s, Trilling thought of writing an “autobiographical memoir” in the mold of Henry Adams’s The Education of Henry Adams, and in notes he composed for a 1971 talk at Purdue, he made a ...

Last week, as liberal arts colleges all... Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. ... Education: Stanford Goes Humanist. 2 minute read. TIME. March 23, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4.

Humanism was once taught on college campuses in what used to be known as the liberal arts, ... Nearly two decades ago, he published an insightful critique of higher education titled Education’s End: A ...