Jonathan EmmesediFeb 11

>> The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems, rings hollow to anyone who has ever cared enough to become a teacher: one teaches because one has fallen in love and, like any lover, one wants to shout it from the rooftops, because in loving something we come to see that it is good, that it is something a person should want for themselves. <<

https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-left-case-for-great-books/

#Education #HigherEducation #LiberalEducation #GreatBooks

The Left Case for Great Books | The Point Magazine

A great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the United States.

The Point Magazine
Show threadJonathan EmmesediJul 7, 2025

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...the nakedly philistine anti-intellectualism of the ruling class in Trump's USA:

https://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/07/the-end-of-the-humboldtian-ideal-at-indiana-university-bloomington.html

#USPolitics #HigherEducation #Indiana #Universities #ArtsAndHumanities #LiberalEducation

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Jun 25, 2025

A quotation from Thoreau

We seem to have forgotten that the expression “a liberal education” originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1860-07-04), “The Last days of John Brown,” North Elba, Massachusetts

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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Jonathan EmmesediMay 7, 2024

There is more to Jack London than "The Call of the Wild" and "To Build a Fire".

Jack London, Martin Eden and the liberal education in US life | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/jack-london-martin-eden-and-the-liberal-education-in-us-life

#USLiterature #JackLondon #MartinEden #LiberalEducation

Jack London, Martin Eden and the liberal education in US life | Aeon Essays

In Jack London’s novel, Martin Eden personifies debates still raging over the role and purpose of education in American life

Aeon
WIST Quotations moves again!Aug 2, 2023

A quotation from Fry, Stephen:

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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. That was my theory at least, and I was living by it.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fry-stephen/62338/

#quote #quotes #quotation #conversation #education #experience #learning #liberaleducation

WIST Quotations moves again!May 16, 2023

A quotation from Griswold, Whitney:

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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/griswold-alfred-whitney/60801/

#quote #quotes #quotation #education #evaluation #freedom #inquiry #liberalarts #liberaleducation #marketplaceofideas

bs2Feb 24, 2023
> William James said that an educated person knows a good man when he sees one. There are standards and a style for every type of activity — manual, athletic, intellectual, or artistic; and the educated man should be one who can tell sound from shoddy work in a field outside his own. General education is especially required in a democracy..
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207971
#GeneralEducation #InAFreeSociety #EducatedPerson How much waste could have been avoided with these ideas? #LiberalEducation
General Education In A Free Society : Bryant Conant, James. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.207971dc.contributor.author: Bryant Conant, James.dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-09T15:29:30Zdc.date.available:...

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bs2Mar 11, 2022
I should get used to using Hubzilla Wiki pages to use photo albums, with some concentrated practice it should become second nature. It's probably taking so long because of experience with similar markdown formats, and with bbcode in Hubzilla, and I don't have enough experience to switch among the various dialects.
https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/LewisMumford/ConductOfLife
#Hubzilla #Wiki start for #LewisMumford books in #Japanese #Translation working towards a #LiberalEducation or #Humanities approach for #FreedomLearning
bsmall2 - [email protected]

bs2Mar 3, 2022
A Start Page search for the Japanese translation of a #MikeDavis interview on #TomDispatch turned up a writing I did about the #EnglishThroughPictures books. I wish I could find that org-file again, but I've been thinking of recreating the quote and source pointers with #racket 's #scribble for a while. But it was hard for me to focus on writing while using scribble. https://www.gdm-japan.net/uploads/yearbooks/yearbook_68.pdf
#GDM #IaRichards #LiberalEducation #FreedomLearning #humanities