Dangers of a Liberal Education
454 views · Published 13 January 2014 · 31:54 · Indexed 26 October 2026
Channel: GBH Forum Network · 2014 · Education
John W. Kuykendall, president emeritus of Davidson College, suggests that the "danger" in a liberal education is not making the most of it. Kuykendall argues that George Washington Scott and the other founders of what was then Decatur Female Seminary knew exactly what they were doing establishing this "school of high character" in 1889. Liberal learning requires doing something with what we learn, and that it implies that we focus not so much on making a living as in making a life, he said.
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