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St. Johns College President Christopher Nelson recently gave an address about the value of a liberal arts education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
If you have ever asked me why I went to St. Johns, what I think is so great about the liberal arts, or why I think that [...]
“Tyrants forbid citizens to do their duty as free men.
Free government permits them to do it.
Liberal education enables them to do it.”
Stringfellow Barr, Co-founder of St. John’s College Great Books program, 1941
In Andrew’s post on Jacob Klein, he briefly quotes Scott Buchanan’s essay [...]
We recently came across the following anecdote about Jacob Klein, an eminent liberal artist and once dean of St. John’s College, at this blog:
During WWII the Navy considered seizing the campus of St. John’s via eminent domain in order to expand the Naval Academy. The fledgling New Program based on the great [...]
The ultimate goal of education is to kindle a love of knowing and to nurture the ability to inquire. The vision of a Liberal Arts Education, as I understand it, is to support the student’s development of independent judgment, clarity of thought and the habit of inquiry.
Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. ~Aristotle
The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts hope in everything…adopts any religion, and the prejudices and the habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. That is the child! ~Maria Montessori
Nature says copy your parents…whatever your interests are, the child gets tremendously interested in them [...]
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