An excerpt:
"What does it mean to be a liberally educated person?...
My list consists not of required courses but of personal qualities: the ten qualities I most admire in the people I know who seem to embody the values of a liberal education. How does one recognize liberally educated people?
From The American Scholar, Volume 67, No. 4, Autumn 1998, by William Cronon, Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by
Delbanco explains how the idea of college arose in the colonial period from the Puritan idea of the gathered church, how it struggled to survive in the nineteenth century in the shadow of the new research universities, and how, in the twentieth century, it slowly opened its doors to women, minorities, and students from low-income families. He describes the unique strengths of America's colleges in our era of globalization and, while recognizing the growing centrality of science, technology, and vocational subjects in the curriculum, he mounts a vigorous defense of a broadly humanistic education for all. --from publisher description
How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research by
This is the long-awaited second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students. The authors review their earlier findings and then synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students’ learning. The book also discusses the implications of the findings for research, practice, and public policy. This authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the literature on college-impact is required reading for anyone interested in higher education practice, policy, and promise¾faculty, administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and decision-makers at every level. From publisher website.
Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education by
Awarded the Association of American Colleges and universities' Frederic W. Ness Prize, this important study traces the intellectual tradition and ideals that have shaped debates about liberal education and the contradictory turns these arguments have taken.
Author's notes
Starting on page 171
To learn more about the sources Zakaria consulted to write this book (and some additional content), see his notes at the end of the book, starting on page 171.
Guide author: Charlotte Gerstein, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Castleton University