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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1900 | Albany

Making a Man

Theodore Roosevelt’s virtues for the American boy.More

c. 1506 | Italy

Bestiary

Desiderius Erasmus lets nature take its course.More

1957 | Little Rock

Calling in the Troops

Eisenhower supports the students in Little Rock.More

Charts & Graphs

The Pen Is Mightier

Questions from IQ tests administered to U.S. Army recruits during World War I.

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Photograph of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Historian and editor D. Graham Burnett.

Black and white photograph of American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath.

British churchman and man of letters John Henry Newman.

Black and white photograph of educator and reformer Booker T. Washington.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

—Herman Melville, 1851

Aristotle & John Locke

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