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Declining Value of Liberal Arts Education in the Twenty-First Century Melissa Ackerman Share Tweet ... Issue 140 Summer/Fall 2011 Friday, July 1, 2011 Craft Essay Liberal Arts Majors Need Not Apply: The ...
Ackerman
like me, is a broad education. The liberal arts should not be viewed as a luxury for the rich and the ... woman in the United States. This new group of college students did not need a fancy education in the ... liberal arts colleges whose sole focus remains providing a broad, classical undergraduate education ...
there are inevitably some fields whose relative position has declined. The growth of the liberal arts is ... century counterparts, who enrolled in a classical liberal arts course along with non-clerics. Many of ... Certainly they provided the liberal arts pro­ fessors with larger audiences than they ever had before. ...
higher education, it does not imply, either a rise or a decline in vocationalism. The same is true of the ... nothing has changed in higher education since the seventeenth century. But it does mean that purity of ... so. One reason for so many liberal arts professors' nostalgia for some hypo­ thetical ...
were arts, not sciences. With the great intellectual revolution which exploded in the 17th century this ... "liberal education" or "the humanities". Such disciplines tended to stress ... everyday life into intellectual problems to be solved. The triumph of classical mechanics proved the value ...
been the case. The nineteenth-century liberal arts college had almost no connection with the main ... partly the culture of eighteenth-century gentlemen. Nor is today's liberal arts college usually ... dichotomy between graduate professional schools on the one hand and undergraduate liberal arts colleges on ...
Scott Greer
the tricksters. But these were, essentially, recipes for action. They were arts, not sciences. With ... "liberal education" or "the humanities". Such disciplines tended to stress ... the great intellectual revolution which exploded in the 17th century this state of affairs was ...
silent, or in their decline, while the younger generation has not yet produced a writer of unmistakable ... learned, and every work of art is the product of a self-consciously applied �echne. The incomprehensible ... importance or even much work of very great interest. The best of it has not yet found its audience; it has ...
criticism, and more than just a valuable and liberating one. But Miss Sontag does not regard herself as ... what it is to be human. But the nature of art is not the only question one confronts in art ... "which do not need truth as much as they need a deepening of the sense of reality, a widening of the ...
What is worth doing and what is not? More realistically, what are the relative values of ends given the ... ineluctables and proven by test, with the world of technology-the applied arts. But these arts are in no sense ... system is not com­ pletely closed. Furthermore, the problematic character of innovation-Will it sell or ...

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