The Uses of a Liberal Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10348697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel S Robinson, Brand Blanshard, Eugene Freeman (0000-0002-7892-6941) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 122-122 |
| Publication date | 1974-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8205 • E-ISSN: 1933-1592 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2106611 |
| OpenAlex | W2062196455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
In this collection of lucid essays, Blanshard explores the nature of youth, the learning process, the nature and function of a liberal education, and the paradoxes of egalitarian education in America. A former professor of philosophy, he fre quently writes in a Victorian grand style that loses nothing in appeal or precision of expression. Over and over-in such essays as The Specialist and the Humanist he returns to his principal theme, the American's mistaken assumption that educa tion is either learning per se or technological proficiency. Education, he argues, is the ability to apply knowledge universally within the context of the disciplined reason. With the present government's emphasis on technical and occupationally oriented education, it is particularly refreshing and timely that a defense of the liberal education should appear; it is equally refreshing that some of the fads of 'relevancy* and 'innovation' should be put in their place
Higher education · Liberal arts education · Liberal education · Political science · Sociology · Educational Challenges and Innovations · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1977 - 2012 (36) |
| Highly cited | No |