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March 11, 2009john pugh, liberal education, liverpool, philosophy, stanley fish

Liberal Education Revisited

A couple of months ago I posted a link to Stanley Fish’s NYT article bemoaning the corroding of liberal education. With the news of the closure of Liverpool’s philosophy department here is John Pugh echoing Fish.

January 19, 2009intrinsic vs instrumental, liberal education, michael oakeshott, philosophy of education, stanley fish

Liberal Education

Stanley Fish in the New York Times blog invokes Michael Oakeshott in considering the debate between education seen in purely instrumental terms vs. education as having intrinsic value as an introduction into the postulates of our culture. Only the other night I caught a news item where everyone was talking in terms of a university…