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The Liberating Arts
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2020
COVID-19 has been apocalyptic for higher education, and indeed for our nation as a whole; it has intensified pressures already threatening liberal arts education. Our conversations aim to enable colleges and universities across the country to learn from one another in addressing today's challenges and opportunities, and they will encourage these institutions to draw on the rich heritage of the liberal arts tradition, while acknowledging its historical limitations, in shaping their responses. Our goal is to think and talk in public about the enduring value of the liberal arts for the particular concerns and challenges of our time.
Against a System that Has Lost its Liberating Arts
Myles Werntz is Director of Baptist Studies and Associate Professor of Theology at Abilene Christian University. With Jessica Hooten Wilson, the two discuss Ivan Illich's scandalous 1971 Deschooling Society. The book argues that mass-enforced public schooling trains students more into producers and automatons than into creative, interdependent learners. Distinguishing between school and education, Illich claims the latter must be done with relational and tangible means, such as the tools of the liberal arts, rather than institutionalized grading and ranking.
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The Lyceum Movement
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Jeff Bilbro talks with Nathan Beacom about the history and revival of the Lyceum. Nathan is directing a project whose mission is to "build meaningful communities by providing a space for neighbors to learn together in friendship. The Lyceum offers classes, events, and a shared space to explore great ideas, great deeds, great art, and the questions that affect our life together. In so doing, it ...
How to Fix the Permanent Crisis in the Humanities
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Prof. Eric Adler and Jessica Hooten Wilson discuss his book Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save the Humanities Today in conversation with Reitter and Wellmon's The Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age. Adler creates a lengthier narrative of the humanities that predates the modern version and shows how rooting the identity of the humanities in this ...
Let's start new liberal arts colleges!
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Founding Presidents John Mark Reynolds, Stephen Blackwood, and Matthew Smith tell us about why they started colleges from scratch and what gap in the academy they hope to fill. As President Blackwood put it, why keep living in a house with a broken foundation? We need to start over.
Thinking Outside the Box with Andy Crouch
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Andy Crouch is on the CCCU governing board. In this conversation, he discusses with Jessica Hooten Wilson ways we might innovate to increase the love of liberal arts from children to adults.
Liberal Arts and Agricultural Arts
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Jeff Bilbro talks with Leah Bayens, the dean of the Wendell Berry Farming Program. This program is a collaboration between Sterling College and the Berry Center. Dr. Bayens's PhD is in English, and she has wide-ranging interests in both the humanities and sustainable agriculture. They talk about the program she directs and the challenges and opportunities of uniting liberal arts education with ...
Thinking and Leading with Generosity
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Jeff Bilbro talks with Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University. She has also held leadership roles for the MLA, and she is the project director of Humanities Commons. They discuss her recent book Generous Thinking and her current project, available in draft form on her website, Leading Generously.
The Humanities' Permanent Crisis
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Jeff Bilbro talks with Chad Wellmon about the arguments in a new book that Chad wrote with Paul Reitter, Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age.
Learning from First-Generation Student-Leaders
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Noah Toly talks with Tim Herron and Marquise Dixon, of Degrees of Change and Act Six, about how institutions can better serve first-generation student-leaders.
Leisure and the Academic Life
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Rachel Griffis talks with theologian Elizabeth Newman about the importance of leisure in academic study. They discuss the academy’s prioritization of productivity, scarcity mindsets vs. mindsets of abundance, and monastic time. Elizabeth is the author of Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture and Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers.
Traditioned Innovation
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Noah Toly talks with Greg Jones, Dean of Duke Divinity School and president-elect of Belmont University, about what liberal arts institutions can learn from his new book, Navigating the Future: Traditioned Innovation for Wilder Seas (with Andrew P. Hogue).
Why the ARTS of Liberal Arts Matter
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Dr. Matthew Post, Associate Dean of Braniff college of humanities at the University of Dallas, and Dr J. Scott Lee, co-founder and retired Executive Director of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, discuss the latter's new book Invention: The Art of Liberal Arts.
The Albertus Magnus Institute and Liberal Learning
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Angel Adams Parham speaks with John Johnson, co-founder and executive director of the Albertus Magnus Institute (AMI). The AMI is a new, innovative learning community dedicated to liberal arts education focused on great books and great texts, rooted in the Catholic Intellectual tradition. Seminars are taught by the highest caliber teachers and scholars at no cost to participants, who are called...
A K-16 Vision for Liberal Arts Education
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Dr. Robert Jackson has experience both as a professor in the humanities, working at The King’s College in New York, and experience as the director of Great Hearts Academies-a network of K-12 classical charter schools that emphasize liberal arts education. In this conversation, we consider the benefits of taking a K-16 view of liberal arts education. For more on Great Hearts Academies see www.gr...
Liberal Arts Beyond the University
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Who are the liberal arts for? It is often assumed that liberal arts education is for the privileged, for those who have little need of a practical skill or trade. But this view dismisses much experience which shows that the least advantaged are often the most strongly impacted by liberal arts education and have the most to gain from it. In this conversation we hear from Dr. Emily Auerbach who h...
Beyond the Classroom: What is the Role of Print Journals in Cultivating Wisdom?
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Beyond the Classroom: What is the Role of Print Journals in Cultivating Wisdom?
Creating as the Primary Verb in Education
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Creating as the Primary Verb in Education
Finding Liberation in an Interdisciplinary Life
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Finding Liberation in an Interdisciplinary Life
The New Atlantis: How Might Technology Work for Human Beings?
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The New Atlantis: How Might Technology Work for Human Beings?
Can the Humanities Find a Home in the Academy?
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Can the Humanities Find a Home in the Academy?
Should Liberal Arts Education Teach Us How to Die?
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Should Liberal Arts Education Teach Us How to Die?
Great Books and Great Questions: Diverse Voices in Pursuit of the True, Good, and Beautiful
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Great Books and Great Questions: Diverse Voices in Pursuit of the True, Good, and Beautiful
Shifting Demographics and Liberal Arts Education
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Shifting Demographics and Liberal Arts Education
What the Liberal Arts Does (and Does Not) Have in Common with a Christian Education
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What the Liberal Arts Does (and Does Not) Have in Common with a Christian Education
The Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts
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The Gaede Institute for the Liberal Arts
Read the Two Cultures essay by C P Snow.
Good discussion but in my opinion not coming up with a convincing concept to “fix the permanent crisis” - at least not for the American context. It sounds like we should get better at the arguments we have delivered again and again over the years. Make better arguments for goals of humanities as character building and being humanitarian does not convince students who do not want to go to college for character building or being humanitarian. The existence of pseudo-humanitarians is lamentable, but we won’t change this by just telling people they have their goals for education wrong and we know better. Side note: the comparison between universities with many majors and a restaurant with a large menu seems not useful: one chef cannot be expert for everything, but different majors in universities are not taught by the same people. There is more than one chef.
A great discussion
I'm not an academic, I'm a retired Pharmacist. I came upon Dr. Hooten Wilson via Bishp Barron via my conversion to Catholicism. I came to Catholicism, partly through Russell Moore, a Southern Baptist, who introduced me to Walker Percy. I'm so glad I found Dr. Hooten Wilson. I've read Giving the Devil His Due, and am nearly finished with "Reading Walker Percy's Novels. " Thank you Dr Hooten Wilson for enriching my mind and my new found Catholicism.
Listening to this a year later, in the midst of a genocidal invasion…
There are guys who haven't spent so much as one day in college who know everything about the Civil War. If someone wants to become a lawyer then the liberal arts are what you should major in as an undergraduate. Political science and history are the two most popular undergraduate majors for future lawyers; and philosophy may be the ideal undergraduate degree for an aspiring lawyer as philosophy trains you to argue persuasively.
“It’s not an explicit bait-and-switch…” Right. It’s far worse than that. It’s a subtle bait-and-switch, boiling the young frogs slowly rather than all at once. The JWHC is not about being “radically Christian.” I would know. I underwent their classes for two years. As much as David and Lanta deny it, the JWHC’s telos is to promote Leftist cultism under the guise of pseudo-Christian language. I have a recording of David claiming that gender isn’t determined by chromosomes. That is inherently an anti-Christian notion that flies in the face of historic Christian orthodoxy. Classical Christian education is a wonderful, eye-opening thing, when done rightly. When done wrongly, it’s neither truly classical nor truly Christian; rather, it becomes a postmodern utensil for dissecting the minds of conservative students and implanting an alternative set of pro-immigration, subjectivist, anti-nationalist, globalist, pro-transgenderist, pro-sodomite, anti-Western, and ultimately anti-Christian ideas.
"A developed capacity for the un-useful." That was just one of the phrases from your conversation that I'll be pondering for a long time. Thank you so much Andy and Jessica for this conversation. I am deeply thankful for the formation I received at my Christian liberal arts college (Whitworth), and I'm praying for you who are working in this field day in and day out.
An important discussion indeed. Thank you for your thoughts!
Great interview! Thank you for the enlightening discussion.
Well done. Thank you for this interview.
If "supremacy" is to be taken seriously as a negative characteristic and utilized as a pejorative, then any form of "supremacy" (better-than-thou narratives) should be called into question if they can be objectively scrutinized as intended to diminish others, correct?
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wealth accumulation is elitist, as well as criminal. Liberal arts is a path to intellectual freedom, which allows the individual to liberate himself from the oppression of authority, and plot for it's overthrow. workers of the world UNITE