Creating a common voice for liberal arts education.(Forum On Liberal Learning)

From: Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council | Date: March 22, 2002| Author: Blaich, Charles F.; Ditzler, Mauri A. | Copyright information

As Sam Schuman so eloquently argues in his lead article, these are challenging times for the liberal arts. A society that owes so much to graduates of liberal arts colleges has come to see them as an education for a simpler time.

Why does a liberal arts education now seem out of place? Perhaps it is that, in times of rapid change, an education that offers the certainty of "textbook solutions" is more comforting than one that promises creative, thoughtful, and flexible "...

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