adrock3215 Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 (edited) The Humanities Move Off Campus As the classical university unravels, students seek knowledge and know-how elsewhere. I was looking for some thoughts on this article. I enjoyed it a lot, and thought that the author made some good points about the state of the modern university, so I wanted to share it. What are your thoughts? Edited December 10, 2008 by adrock3215 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athena glaukopis Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 I completely agree with this: Third, classical education was a window on the West. Study of Athenian democracy, Homeric epic, or Roman basilicas framed all exploration of subsequent eras, from the Middle Ages to modernity. An Aquinas, Dante, Michelangelo, or Montesquieu could be seen as reaffirming, adopting, modifying, or rejecting something that the Greeks or Romans had done first. One could no more build a liberal education without some grounding in the classics than one could construct a multistory house without a foundation. "They either do not know what the Parthenon is or, if they do, they do not understand how its role as the democratic civic treasury of the Athenians was any different from—much less any “better” than—what went on atop the monumental Great Temple of Tenochtitlán. At my school, we are explicitly taught that they are of equal merit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted December 10, 2008 Report Share Posted December 10, 2008 Appalling. I am taking some time to get a *very* light overview of the Greeks and Romans now; I'll never be 1/100th as versed in the classics as (say) Dr. John Lewis but I can see there is value here and that the purpose of Tenochtitlan was simply evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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