Not to mention a house note's worth of student loan debt for that 4 year "degree".
They still get government jobs with that.
Not to mention a house note's worth of student loan debt for that 4 year "degree".
WRONG
This author is full of it.
Interesting article. I didn’t appreciate some of the great Greek tragedies and comedies as fully as I did after reading up on the Peloponnesian war.
People too often allow the word “Liberal” throw them.
Hillsdale college is a liberal arts school with a truly historic list of alumnus and speakers. Fredrick Douglass, Ronald Reagan, Margret Thatcher....
Shakespeare, Goethe, etc. use UNIVERSAL themes.
If the retard who wrote this crap doesn't know that, he is clueless on the topic he is pretending to write about.
It’s hard to find a rendition of classic theater uncorrupted by postmodern directorial whim
Regarding today’s RCC, that can be nicely restated: ‘It’s hard to find a rendition of classsic worship uncorrupted by postmodern litugical whim...’
The liberal arts are not dead, but sleeping.
Thank you for posting. As Mark Steyn always points out, we lost the culture and now are losing the political battle. The author is spot on regardless of what your fellow Freepers pontificate. They forget that Cultural Marxism has always viewed the family, education and the Church (the true church) as the targets...
“Don Juan exists to prove by construction that a devout Christian can be a sociopath, and by extension, that the Christian world can be ruled by sociopaths. The Enlightenment’s most insidious attack on Catholic faith, then, came not from atheists like Voltaire, but from a Spanish monk with buried Jewish sensibilities.”
Somebody is screwed up somewhere. Don Juan may have been a devout Catholic or a devout Baptist (plug in your most hated denomination) but you can be either and not be a devout Christian. I John and other passages make it abundantly clear that you can be deceived about your own heart and its motives but that doesn’t make you a Christian.
And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. ... who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. ...
And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them. ... who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. ...
I’m sure it’s equally true of sociopaths.
Sorry, that second Bible quote was supposed to be
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.
A very erudite commentary by Goldman.
I’m sure the three or four people who will read and understand it will be suitably impressed.
The Great Qustions asked of mankind are not easily answered. They require a great deal of contemplation, and contemplation requires free time. It requires lots of free time.
We live in a world with several billion people who do not have the time, energy, training or inclination to contemplate the Great Questions. They are trying to put dinner on the table and keep a roof over their heads. If you want people to take some of their precious time and follow the Liberal Arts, then you must show how it is of benefit for them to do so. And you must explain it in a way that several billion people without the benefit of years of philosophical training can understand.
You can’t force a person’s head into a plate of Liberal Arts stew and expect them to enjoy it. They must be brought to it.
The way to do this is to show them how enjoyable a poem or a painting or a book can be. Once they taste fine poetry, they will hunger for more. This will lead them to consider what it is that causes the poet to write the poem. This opens up a new world.
One of the biggest fights here on Free Republic is the fight over the purpose of education. Many people rightly claim that education should be training for a vocation. But is all life merely the drudgery of work? Is that the ultimate goal?
And so much Liberal Arts education is so poorly done. It must support the revolution or stroke the instructor’s ego.
Yes, a Liberal Arts education is good for everyone, but it must be done well and it must be shown to be of benefit.
art is dead .....long live art
Great article. Pay no attention to the boobs who can’t process it.
People in our culture today have no time to think deep thoughts. Any “free” time they have is spent being entertained by shallow movies and television and music. Sure, there are gems here and there, but most of it negates rather than encourages thinking.
I have known Mozart’s Don Giovanni for many years.
I never made any connection with it and Catholicism.
The libretto (the story and words) was written by Italian librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, who worked with Mozart on several operas.
Da Ponte later moved to NY City in the US and luckily (for me—not for the clueless) left valuable information about what it was like to work together with Mozart while Mozart was directly in the middle of his creative process.
Very interesting article from the gloomy Spengler.
Take that, all you engineering degree drones!