The value of a liberal education is no longer self-evident. Despite a torrent of books and essays extolling a liberal arts education’s value and utility, broad segments of the public have grown ...

Is liberal education losing in power to attract youth? This is alleged in many quarters. In college and secondary school, the studies which wear a vocational aspect are being preferred, we are told, ...

The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It by John Agresto (2022, Encounter Books), 256 pages. Since Allan Bloom's bestselling classic Closing of the ...

Among the many crises we face in the United States, the chief one is that we don’t know how to be free. Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and ...

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Over 25 years ago, I entered college and began a life in liberal education. Before college, my high-school identity in a small town had centered on playing football and chasing girls. When I graduated ...

For years, many of our country’s most wealthy and privileged families have ignored shifting educational fashions and continued to send their children to high-quality residential colleges and ...

Answering the perennial question of what university education should be requires a return to first principles. Speak to many Duke students and you get the idea that the university is failing to shore ...

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This synergistic atmosphere continues to influence the way I think and sync.” A Humanities student and eventually a theatre ...

Say that the leadership from a liberal arts institution of higher learning and a scaled online learning platform provider should get together to discuss a potential partnership. What might they talk ...

On January 23, AEI’s Benjamin Storey hosted John Agresto, former president of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a conversation about his latest book, The Death of Learning: How American ...