The Two Pillars of Wisdom and the Dummying-Down of Higher Education.

Logan, Richard D.; Mannino, Joseph A.

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Publication Date: 1988

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The Two Pillars of Wisdom and the Dummying-Down of Higher Education.

Logan, Richard D.; Mannino, Joseph A.

Liberal Education, v74 n1 p36-40 Jan-Feb 1988

The two "pillars of wisdom" supporting liberal arts education, the scientific-empirical and the humanistic-rationalist traditions, are being eroded in the college curriculum and supplanted by the social sciences. The perspective this brings to the curriculum is increasingly anti-intellectual and endangers the value of the individual as knowing subject. (MSE)

Descriptors: College Curriculum, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy, Educational Quality, Higher Education, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences

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