Discussion Group
Liberal Education and the Modern University
A series of luncheon discussions about the place of liberal learning in the modern university. Each week we will hold a discussion prompted by a short but thought-provoking reading.
Open to all Yale students. To RSVP or for more information please contact Peter Wicks.
Wednesdays, 11.45-1.00pm
Sept 17 | Daniel Markovits, “How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning”
Sept 24 | Mark Edmundson, “On the Uses of Liberal Education”
Oct 1 | William Deresiewicz, “Solitude and Leadership”
To know what we want in education we must know what we want in general, we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life.
T. S. Eliot, “Modern Education and the Classics”
Norman Rockwell, A Bright Future for Banking (1955)