The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Documentary History

Bruce A. Kimball

doi:10.5771/9780761851332

Summary

Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive explanatory notes discussing its place within the liberal arts tradition. Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion of women within the history of the liberal arts.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2010
Copyright Year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5132-5
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5133-2
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 511
Product Type: Monograph

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction the Disputed Origins No access Pages 1 - 12
1. 1. 1. Plato, Republic (370s B.C.) No access
  2. 2. Isocrates, Antidosis (340s B.C.) No access
2. 1. 3. Aristotle, Politics (c. 330 B.C.) No access
  2. 4. Cicero, on the Orator (55 B.C.) No access
3. 1. 5. Seneca the Younger, "On Liberal and Vocational Studies" (c. A.D. 63) No access
  2. 6. Quintilian, Education of the Orator (c. A.D. 95) No access
1. 1. 7. Augustine, On Christian Learning (396, 426) No access
2. 1. 8. Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury (c. 425) No access
  2. 9. Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524) No access
3. 1. 10. Cassiodorus, Introduction to Divine and Human Letters (c. 562) No access
  2. 11. Isidore of Seville, Origins or Etymologies in Twenty Books (c. 620s) No access
4. 1. 12. Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (c. 1404) No access
1. 13. Founding of Universities, 1100s-1500 No access
2. 1. 14. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes (c. 1132) No access
3. 1. 15. Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalicon (c. 1127) No access
  2. 16. John of Salisbury, Metalogicon (1159) No access
4. 1. 17. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (c. 350 B.C.) No access
  2. 18. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the POSTERIOR ANAL YTICS (c. 1259) No access
5. 1. 19. Thomas Aquinas, Disputation concerning ON THE TRINITY (c. 1259) No access
6. 1. 20. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the NICOMACHEAN ETHICS (c. 1258) No access
7. 1. 21. University Statutes and Documents No access
8. 1. 22. Rules for Men and Women Teaching in Grammar Schools (c. 1357) No access
  2. 23. A Female Student at the University of Cracow (c. 1464) No access
1. 1. 24. Francesco Petrarca, On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others (1370) No access
  2. 25. Pier Paolo Vergerio, On Noble Character and Liberal Studies of Youth (c. 1402) No access
2. 1. 26. Ignatius Loyola, Constitutions of the Society of Jesus (1594) No access
3. 1. 27. Laura Cereta, Letters (1486, 1488) No access
  2. 28. Roger Ascham, Letters on Tutoring Queen Elizabeth I (1548-1550) No access
1. 29. Harvard College, New England's First Fruits (1643) No access
2. 30. Bathsua Makin, Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) No access
3. 31. Juana Inez de la Cruz, "The Poet's Reply" (1691) No access
4. 32. Yale College, "Concerning Scholastic Exercises" ([1748], 1774) No access
5. 33. College of New Jersey, An Account (1764) No access
1. 1. 34. Samuel H. Smith, A System of Liberal Education (1798) No access
  2. 35. Emma Willard, A Plan for Improving Female Education (1819) No access
  3. 36. Liberal Arts Colleges Opened for Instruction, 1600-1820 No access
2. 1. 37. Jeremiah Day, "Course of Instruction in Yale College" (1828) No access
  2. 38. Catalog of Dartmouth College for the Academical Year 1852-53 No access
  3. 39. Catalog of Alfred University for the year ending June 30, 1858 No access
1. 40. Charles W. Eliot, "Many New Methods of Giving Instruction" (1880) No access
2. 1. 41. "The Question of Health" (1872) No access
  2. 42. Edward H. Clarke, Sex in Education (1873) No access
  3. 43. "The Sexes in College" (1870) No access
  4. 44. James H. Fairchild, "The Experience at Oberlin" (1867) No access
  5. 45. Mary Fairfax Somerville, "Testimony," (1869) No access
  6. 46. Lydia Ernestine Becker, "On the Study of Science by Women" (1869) No access
3. 1. 47. Charles W. Eliot, "Liberty in Education" (1885) No access
  2. 48. James McCosh, the New Departure in College Education (1885) No access
4. 1. 49. William R. Harper, "The Situation of the Small College" (1900) No access
  2. 50. Booker T. Washington, "Industrial Education for the Negro" (1903) No access
  3. 51. W. E. B. Du Bois, "The Talented Tenth" (1903) No access
1. 52. William T. Foster, Administration of the College Curriculum (1911) No access
2. 1. 53. Lionel Trilling, "General Education and the American Preparatory System" (1973) No access
  2. 54. Daniel Bell, The Reforming of General Education (1966) No access
3. 1. 55. Edgar E. Robinson, "Problems of Citizenship," Stanford University (1929) No access
4. 1. 56. Kathryn McHale, "Future Possibilities in Liberal-Arts Education" (1932) No access
  2. 57. John Dewey, et al., The Curriculum for the Liberal Arts College (1931) No access
  3. 58. Robert M. Hutchins, The Higher Learning in America (1936) No access
1. 59. Sarah V. Barnes, '"Experimental' Liberal Education for Women, 1939-1947" No access
2. 60. Frank Aydelotte, Honors Work in American Colleges and Universities (1944) No access
3. 61. Willis Rudy, The Evolving Liberal Arts Curriculum (1960) No access
4. 1. 62. Harold Taylor, "Individualism and the Liberal Tradition" (1958) No access
  2. 63. Paul O. Kristeller, "Liberal Education and Western Humanism" (1976) No access
  3. 64. Gerald Grant and David Riesman, Reform and Experiment in the American College (1978) No access
1. 65. St. John's College, "Statement of the Program" (2007) No access
2. 66. Mary Louise Pratt, "The Western Culture Debate at Stanford" (1992) No access
3. 67. Martha C. Nussbaum, A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997) No access
4. 68. Nancy D. Marcus, "Three Philosophical Heroes: King, Boethius, and Socrates" (2008) No access
5. 69. Christopher Metress, "A Place for Silence: Benedict's Rule and the Great Books Dialogue" (2008) No access
6. 70. David C. Paris and Bruce A. Kimball, "Liberal Education: An Overlapping Pragmatic Consensus" (2000) No access
Glossary of Names No access Pages 497 - 502
Index No access Pages 503 - 511