#liberaleducation — Public Fediverse posts

>> The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems, rings hollow to anyone who has ever cared enough to become a teacher: one teaches because one has fallen in love and, like any lover, one wants to shout it from the rooftops, because in loving something we come to see that it is good, that it is something a person should want for themselves. <<

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-left-case-for-great-books/

#Education #HigherEducation #LiberalEducation #GreatBooks

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...the nakedly philistine anti-intellectualism of the ruling class in Trump's USA:

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/07/the-end-of-the-humboldtian-ideal-at-indiana-university-bloomington.html

#USPolitics #HigherEducation #Indiana #Universities #ArtsAndHumanities #LiberalEducation

@DelphineAngua @dgar Good point. ✅

I previously used the word ‘proves’ loosely.

There are in fact explanations (thankfully improbable IMHO) for why we have NOT been inundated with visitors from a future after #TimeMachines have been invented by #STEM #GradStudents. One is that ‘#VentureCapitalists ‘ lacking a high-quality #LiberalEducation will extinguish ALL other futures for humanity. 🤔

> William James said that an educated person knows a good man when he sees one. There are standards and a style for every type of activity — manual, athletic, intellectual, or artistic; and the educated man should be one who can tell sound from shoddy work in a field outside his own. General education is especially required in a democracy..
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207971
#GeneralEducation #InAFreeSociety #EducatedPerson How much waste could have been avoided with these ideas? #LiberalEducation