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.

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.

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The Attributes of the Arts and the Rewards Which Are Accorded Them, by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, 1766.

School Terms

By George Steiner

Redfining literacy for the modern age.

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The Art of Knowing

Advancements in writing, medicine, mapmaking, and building.

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2008 | New Haven

Trimming the Ivy

William Deresiewicz finds a gap in his education.More

1960 | San Quentin

Meeting a Guru

Eldridge Cleaver’s behind-bars guide.More

1776 | Boston

Equal Opportunity

Abigail Adams remembers America’s daughters.More

Charts & Graphs

Thought Control

Books condemned by U.S. public schools during the 1980s.

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Black and white image of English philosopher and political theorist John Stuart Mill.

Painting of humanist and scholar Erasmus.

Portrait of Swiss-born philosopher, writer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Black and white photograph of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung seated with legs crossed.

Christian scholar St. Jerome.

German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

—George Santayana, 1905

Photo of stone Aristotle statue face

Color portrait of English philosopher John Locke.

Aristotle & John Locke

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