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Illiberal Education

Barack-A-Sorros Wrote: Jul 31, 2010 12:48 PM
Keep in mind a Liberal education isn't the same as a real education.
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Brian953 Wrote: Aug 01, 2010 3:07 AM
Actually, only a liberal education is a real education, but that is not to be taken in the sense of modern liberalism.

That a real education is of necessity a liberal education, is why we have the category in education of "liberal arts." Liberal arts is not studying artwork by modern political liberals, after all!

Kenneth Howell was booted from his job at the University of Illinois for teaching Catholicism. His job at the University of Illinois, as it happens, was teaching Catholicism.

After more than two months of controversy over a firing that should have never have happened, he has been offered his job back. The turnaround underscores the scandal that continues at core institutions of our Western culture. The incident exposes, once again, the lie that is the popular conception of "tolerance," so conventionally in vogue and by no coincidence a tenet of left-wing ideology.

Howell, who teaches an introductory survey of Catholic thought,...