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February 6, 2006
Leave it to an American Studies Professor...
Leave it to an American Studies professor at an Ivy League school never to have heard of the great books colleges. Nothing narrower than modernism.
The term "liberal arts" first came up during the Middle Ages, American studies professor Matthew Jacobson said. Although the original liberal arts included only seven subjects -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy -- Jacobson said he thinks "it's been ages" since anyone in this country has actually studied exactly those subjects as part of a liberal arts education.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 6, 2006 10:19 PM