As I engage in the so-called "bull sessions" around and about the school, I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still [...]
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the doctor from Edinburgh, teaches new doctors about the mind.
Computer scientists advocate a liberal education for the future, flexing their epistemological, ontological and ethical muscles on concepts of artificial intelligence.
Pushkin brings a desire for spiritual fulfillment between prisoners and their guard.
Looking toward the past, and the future, on New Year's Day
A call for integrative therapy, including the liberal arts
"As long as poets express merely their puny subjective impressions, they are not worth the name; but as soon as they know how to appropriate and express the world, they are poets. For then they are inexhaustible and can be constantly new, as opposed to a subjective nature, which quickly expresses its meagre inner life [...]
Humanities skills offer a multifaceted and adaptable toolbox for navigating career shifts and changing workforce demands.
Do the humanities sacrifice truth for theory, unlike scientists?
Every society is based on aristocracy, because this one, the true one, is demanding with regard to itself, and without this demand every society would die. Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1954
