A return to understanding: Making liberal education valuable again

Review Article: Commitment to Liberal Education

The central purpose of Thiessen's book is to defend religious nurture and instruction against the charge of indoctrination. In doing so he questions the prevailing ideal of liberal education which tmderlies the charge of religious indoctrination. But Thiessen's ambition reaches even farther: he also wants to sketch the outlines of a new ideal of liberal education, in the extension of which a re...

Burtchaell likes liberal education

L y ° 1***' N o~ 6 8 ____________________________________________________________________________ W ed nesday , January 25, 1978 by Mark Perry Staff Reporter Fr. Jam es T. B urtchaell, a t a sm all gatherin in F isher Hall last n igh t, s ta ted th a t he believes studen ts are p ressu red into study­ ing for certain professions and are th u s losing m any of th e benefits of a liberal educatio...

The goals of a liberal education.

The case for a liberal education.

On October 1, 1891, more than 500 enthusiastic young men and women were on hand for opening day ceremonies at Leland Stanford Junior University. They came from all over: many from California, some who followed professors hired from other colleges and universities, and some simply seeking adventure in the West. They came to seize a special opportunity, to be part of the pioneer class in a brand ...

Making Quantification Relevant Again

Defeasible Description Logics (DDLs) extend Description Logics with defeasible concept inclusions. Reasoning in DDLs often employs rational or relevant closure according to the (propositional) KLM postulates. If in DDLs with quantification a defeasible subsumption relationship holds between concepts, this relationship might also hold if these concepts appear in existential restrictions. Such ne...