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

At the same time, they must promote a humanistic education that eschews a narrow disciplinarity, that engages in dialogue with the social and natural sciences and applied and pre-professional fields, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Say it with me: Liberal arts education is awesome. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. From our morning news ...

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 ...

What are these radical changes? The liberal arts are being cut away in both elementary and secondary education and in universities. Indeed, what we might call the humanistic aspects of science and ...

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.

This book offers a defence of liberal humanism as a philosophy of higher education, particularly in the humanities, against the illiberal trends, political and intellectual, that are currently ...

The Princeton admissions website describes a liberal arts education as offering an “expansive intellectual grounding in all kinds of humanistic inquiry … by exploring issues, ideas and methods across ...

Last week, I traveled to Singapore to attend the opening of a new liberal-arts college campus. That college is Yale-NUS—the product of a partnership forged about seven years ago between Yale and ...