School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

School of Athens, by Raphael, 1505. Apostolic Palace, Vatican City.

Ways of Learning

Volume 1, Number 4 | fall 2008

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A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1484. Louvre Museum, Paris, France.

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Playing with Fire

By Lewis H. Lapham

The framework of American education holds fast to the ardent but mistaken belief that education is a commodity, the stuff that one pours into empty vessels.

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The Seven Liberal Arts, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, c. 1460. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

The College Idea

By Andrew Delbanco

What it was, is, and should be.

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The Art of Knowing

Advancements in writing, medicine, mapmaking, and building.

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1957 | Little Rock

Calling in the Troops

Eisenhower supports the students in Little Rock.More

c. 1506 | Italy

Bestiary

Erasmus lets nature take its course.More

c. 1854 | Cambridge, MA

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Henry Adams on Harvard College.More

Charts & Graphs

Living Wage

Teacher salaries in ancient Rome and modern New York.

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English writer Geoffrey Chaucer.

Black and white photograph of English writer Virginia Woolf.

Henry David Thoreau

Color image of English novelist Charlotte Brontë with book in hand.

Sculpture bust of Roman teacher and writer Quintilian.

Black and white photograph of social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

—W.H. Auden, 1947

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Aristotle & John Locke

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