The State of the Humanities.

Mounce, Robert H.

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ERIC Number: EJ131182

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Publication Date: 1975

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The State of the Humanities

Mounce, Robert H.

Liberal Education, 61, 4, 455-9, Dec 75

Analyzes the present decline of the humanities finding three causes: facination of technological progress, rapid growth of vocational education, and the necessity of institutional survival. Defends the liberal arts as essential to a free society, prerequisites for a cohesive and self-governing group of people. (JT)

Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Needs, General Education, Higher Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Social Influences, Socioeconomic Influences, Technological Advancement, Vocational Education

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