IV. Program Considerations First, liberal arts learning must self-consciously aim at integration, at helping students gain a sense of the “connectedness of things.”  Education in any structure can degenerate to an exercise in trivial pursuit.  The disciplines have legitimate goals and they have served the advance of human knowledge well.  But unless the disciplines become…

The previous post on this blog ended with this statement:  As someone put it, “the object of an open mind, like an open mouth, is occasionally to close it on something.”  In the next post I will offer what I believe that “something” entails in a liberal arts education.  So, to follow through with that…

Let me begin this second “installment” by calling attention to the fact that I did not entitle this blog “On the Boundaries of the Liberal Arts and Preparation for Career” nor have I defined the issue as a “paradox.”  I do not accept the idea that these are polar opposites—“either/ors”—but would rather argue that the…