Preamble 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. More
Essay Portraits of the Artist By Howard Singerman If today there is no longer any particular set of skills that must be learned in order for one to make art, how does one become an artist? More
Voices In Time 1906 | New York City Mark Twain Defines Man the Machine We are all but sewing machines.More
A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education. —George Bernard Shaw, 1903
