Posted on 07/30/2021 7:02:37 AM PDT by karpov
Universities are in dire need of reform. They are too expensive; the classwork is too easy; the curriculum too unfocused. Too many students drop out or don’t care. Indeed, many of today’s universities have strayed so far from their original purpose that creating a path for reform and renewal seems impossible.
But a new book by Margarita Mooney begins to explore avenues for reform in one area: refocusing universities on the liberal arts. Mooney is an associate professor in the Department of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and founder of the Scala Foundation. Scala calls itself “a movement of students and educators who believe that beauty and wisdom are integral to a full liberal arts education.”
The Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts is a reflection of Scala’s mission “to renew American culture by restoring beauty and wisdom to the liberal arts.” It is a refreshing discussion on both the importance and practice of the liberal arts, especially at religious institutions. Through conversations with seven scholars from across the humanities, Mooney offers better ways of understanding and addressing the big questions and tensions that our universities face.
Mooney’s interlocutors include Robert P. George who directs the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, Elizabeth Corey, Honors Program Director at Baylor University, Roosevelt Montás, who was the Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018, as well as four other distinguished scholars. The book began as webinar dialogues between Mooney and the contributors, all of whom are “examples of people who have pursued excellence through liberal arts education.”
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Why wait until college?
U must B joking.
College should be for engineers and REAL sciences.
All else is fluff.
You train someone to do a job.
You educate someone to be a more complete person.
What is needed is a new word.
We need a word that represents the infusion of right behavior in a person from the time they are born until the time they receive training.
Agreed.
I agree.
We have surrendered this period of time in a person’s life to the public education system.
And they are doing a miserable job of it.
This article looks like elitism.
Very few people will read it.
The improvement of the individual is perhaps the most important effort on this planet.
Look at the problems in this nation.
They are all brought about by people.
Messed up people.
We used to rely on the time spent in synagogue or church to improve all our youth.
For a variety of reasons, this is not effective at this time.
And now the conservatives who went into STEM fields are lorded over by woke CEOs.
The progressive March through the Institutions encountered little or no opposition and we are now feeling the pain.
My undergrad degree is in History. Academically rigorous, no professor pushed their personal beliefs (although it was fun to talk with them after the course was over). Graduate work is in science, but no regrets on a degree in History.
You cannot train a bad person to do a good job.
You cannot educate a bad person to be more complete.
A person must come to their training or education already possessing the way of right behavior.
Truth without Beauty is Arrogant.
Beauty without Truth is effete.
The short-sighted view of conservatives to only encourage their kids to get "real" degrees and "real" jobs has left the fields of the humanities, journalism, law, politics, etc. to the leftists who are now in control of the culture.
The left has successfully taken control of pretty much every facet of our society. They even seem to have grabbed control of the last frontier: the corporate boards and leadership.
What is "conservative" about working in fields that bring us new radical technologies while not giving a tinker's cuss about preserving our Western heritage?
I think those are reasonable statements!
Have you noticed the crap our Universities are putting out?
Marxism has NOT worked in any country in over a hundred years..and that’s what ‘intellectuals’ are pushing? That’s the definition of ‘stupid’...
I fear our industrial/education complex is run by pretentious ‘men’ and IQ 100 cat ladies...
Have you noticed the crap our Universities are putting out?
Marxism has NOT worked in any country in over a hundred years..and that’s what ‘intellectuals’ are pushing? That’s the definition of ‘stupid’...
I fear our industrial/education complex is run by pretentious ‘men’ and IQ 100 cat ladies...
Bring back University of Chicago ‘Great Books’ ... teach classics rather than silly ‘fashion of the moment’ BS and conservatives will be on board.
“Why wait until college?”
Good question. People should study the liberal arts subjects because down deep they find them interesting.
There’s nothing like listening to, say, a historian give a lively discussion on the spice trade between the far east and Europe.
It’s all about engineering
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