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.

To RSVP or for more information please contact Peter Wicks.

Please note that events in this series are for current Yale students only.

Wednesdays, 11.45-1.00pm

Sept 20 | Daniel Markovits, “How College Became a Ruthless Competition Divorced From Learning”
Sept 27 | Mark Edmundson, “On the Uses of Liberal Education”
Oct 4 | William Deresiewicz, “Solitude and Leadership”
Oct 11 | Jennifer Frey, “The Universe and the University”
Oct 25 | Alasdair MacIntyre, “Against Utilitarianism”
Nov 1 | Louis Menand, “The Problem of General Education”

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”