Monday, November 7, 2011

Why Bother With Liberal Arts?

From a recent post discussing the merits of a classical education on Andrew Sullivan's blog:
But the main reason for a classical education is precisely its uselessness. True learning is practically useless; and it should be. It is not about deploying knowledge to master the world, it is about the pursuit of truth for the sake of nothing else. It is about the highest things. How is a life worth living if it ignores them?
And there you have it. My reason for being.

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