Quartz. “It worries me that so many of the builders of technology today are people like me; people haven’t spent anywhere near enough time thinking about these larger questions of what it is that we are building, and what the implications are for the world.”
The Wall Street Journal. Indoctrinating students isn’t the same as teaching them. Homer and Shakespeare have much to tell us about how to think and how to live.
The Washington Post. A broad general education helps foster critical thinking and creativity. Technology alone is not enough - it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing."
Time Magazine. Philosophy and the humanities are not merely handmaidens of job-training courses, however useful they may be in that role; they are at the core of what makes education – and life – valuable.
The Economist. Business leaders would benefit from studying great writers.
The Fresno Bee. A broad liberal arts education teaches us to think. Good thinking is essential for citizens of a free, self-governing democracy.
The New York Times. “technology alone is not enough — it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing."
The Hoya. "A liberal arts degree offers the wide-ranging skillset necessary to thrive in this oncoming and unpredictable new age of tech development."
Bloomberg. Summary of dialogue between Cornel West and Robert P. George emphasizing the threat of a purely-economic valuation of education and the meaning of the liberal arts.
Inc. "Liberal arts graduates are agile thinkers: They have learned how to think, not what to think."
The New York Times. Former Secretary of the Treasury describes how a degree in philosophy helped him navigate Wall Street and Washington.
WAMU, American University Radio. "So, what’s the purpose of liberal arts colleges today? Are they changing to meet the needs of a 21st-century student?"
The Hechinger Report. “A liberal arts degree provides skills and assets that make uncertainty something that can be embraced.”
EAB. "These in-demand skills teach help students build a strong moral foundation."