The Liberal Education Grift Expands

As board chair of the American Academy for Liberal Education, I'm delighted to announce our new partnership with the Association for Core Texts and Courses #LiberalArts #highered https://t.co/TPhGlKNGam

— Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill (@JPfefferMerrill) January 11, 2022

When Does One Pass from Being a Liberal Educator to Being a Liberal?

How could students who have little grounding in the truth, i.e. they lack the requisite experience, possibly respond or be critical of the texts they read?

Wisdom on encouraging students to seek truth and empowering them to think critically and for themselves, from the indispensable Greg Lukianoff.

H/T @PamelaParesky

The Empowering of the American Mind https://t.co/EbfkArvt86

— Robert P. George (@McCormickProf) June 7, 2021

Liberal Education Will Fix Everything!

When you don't have political liberty, a liberal education really doesn't matter, especially if that liberal education is deemed to be in opposition to the reigning woke civic religion and therefore to be eliminated.

Priorities, people. Don't look to academics for leadership or solutions to our political crisis because they are stuck in the mindset of preserving their job and financial security. They are not really fremen.

Listen in while Andrew Seeley discusses the ongoing revival of Catholic schools through classical curriculums. https://t.co/qyu3u0id2H

— First Things (@firstthingsmag) January 12, 2021

Culture Proceeds from a People

By itself literary culture cannot create a people, even if "inclusion" makes those in charge feel good about themselves for being open-minded.

Is it possible to maintain a classical core while also hearing from voices that have not traditionally been part of that core? Dr. Angel Adams Parham and Dr. Brian Williams discuss how to wisely read voices that have been left out of the canon:https://t.co/szG5V4RJ39

— Liberating_Arts (@Liberating_Arts) November 23, 2020

The College at St. Constantine

It is related to the schools of the same name.
(Lehigh Valley)

A series of ideas: 1. one can do College w/o usury 2. everyone deserves one on one tutorials. 3. knowing the "basement" ideas of a linguistic tradition matters 4. knowing the great diversity of ideas in the world as it is counts. All this is possible! https://t.co/RnQQNcvNQy

— John Mark N Reynolds (@JMNR) October 15, 2020

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Ars Vitae and Lost in Thought

Amanda Patchin considers what Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn’s ARS VITAE and @zenahitz’s LOST IN THOUGHT might teach us about living well in the midst of suffering and uncertainty: https://t.co/wbaWQBMVx3 pic.twitter.com/ZnQgjBQjfX

— Front Porch Republic (@FrontPorchRepub) October 16, 2020

More Hustling in the Hustle Economy

When the collapse accelerates, learning to code won't be an option.

In @scalaorg's Love of Learning, we explore the importance of liberal arts education for learning & learning well.@margaritamooney asks, "Can Liberal Arts Education Survive Burnout Culture?" @ @PepperdineSPP, a great school under @Pete4CA's leadership.https://t.co/P9NoYVMsVP

— Scala Foundation (@scalaorg) May 29, 2020

Marriage reduces the odds that a household will go through costly family transitions, encourages greater support from family networks, and builds habits of financial prudence. https://t.co/SQZ65DpzXi @WilcoxNMP #FamilyInTheTimeOfCoronavirus

— Inst. Family Studies (@FamStudies) May 29, 2020

Another Piece on John Senior

Magdalen College

An education that prepares men for collapse and dealing with feminism, though? What small, liberal arts Catholic college provides that?

Robert Carlson on the Ending of IHP

Killing Socrates: The Death of a Great Books Program by Robert K. Carlson

Why Bother With the Classics?

CWR Dispatch: “Yours Is The Wisdom”: Pagans, Doctors, and Fathers by Jerry Salyer

To ask why Christian students should bother reading Cicero when they have Saint Augustine is a little like asking why babies should bother learning to talk when they could be learning to sing.

What Future for Higher Ed?

CWR: Bonfire of the Humanities: The Moorings of Academy Adrift by Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D.
We must choose between a commitment to the unmeasurable things that bring us refinement and solace, such as beauty, or the destructive path of pure pragmatism and economics, which engender apathy and narcissism.

Jonathan Haidt, "Two Incompatible Values at American Universities"

Related:

Jordan Peterson: My Message to Millenials: How to Change the World -- Properly

University of St. Katherine

Don't Let the Perfect Be the Enemy of the Good?

Wyoming Catholic College may be better than larger Catholic universities and their secular counterparts, but is it, like the other alternative Catholic colleges, sabotaging its own mission by marketing a liberal education equally to men and women, and in a co-ed format?

Written by WCC's president, Glenn Arbery: Liberal Education and Conditions of Hope

Jacob Klein

Imaginative Conservative: Jacob Klein: European Scholar and American Teacher by Eva Brann

The Return of the Autodidact's Reading List

The Autodidact's Reading List, I: The Ancient Greeks

A profile of Dr. Fleming: Thought Leader

Dr. McLean on Catholic Liberal Education

Dr. McLean: The Case for a Catholic Liberal Education in the 21st Century
Talk given at the Catholic Professional & Business Group of Reno, Nevada, on June 11, 2015.

A Profile of Owen Chadwick

by David Warren

Yet I’ve been sometimes repelled by a writer who seemed himself to believe a little in progress. He was no reactionary, and he played a direct part in the evolution of, for instance, Selwyn College, which under his watch admitted men, and then women, too, of other faiths or of no faith at all. What a bounder.

That's still rather progressive. Too much of a scholar, not enough of an educator and observer of human nature?

Fr. Schall on liberal education: Is there a patron saint for teachers?