Vocation and the liberal arts. From: Modern Age | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Conyers, A.J. | COPYRIGHT 2003 Intercollegiate Studies Institute Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

EVEN WHILE REMAINING in the university's core curriculum in vestigial form, the liberal arts appear to the average university student, even to the graduate student, as wholly detached from any vocational meaning. They are the stuff of record keeping, of esoteric facts and texts and languages; they are the furnishings of life's attic. The liberal arts concern the university and nothing more, and the older part of the university at that. It is harmless activity for intellectuals and ...

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