Making space for liberal arts
Making space for liberal arts
Volume-3 | Issue-3: We see how one can make some space for exploring liberal arts.
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This week’s theme — Making space for liberal arts
“When your father dies, your accounting degree is not going to help you at all to process that experience. Homer will help you. The crude preoccupation with moneymaking as the only goal of a college education is giving us a citizenry that is extremely degraded, as far as I’m concerned. I think it’s only the crudest and least interesting practicality that has no time for the humanities.”
Daniel Mendelsohn on why you should read stories like The Odyssey
This week, we see how one can make some space for exploring liberal arts.
Plato, in Book VII of The Republic, mentions “Let us take every possible care that young persons do not study philosophy too early.”
But the capitalistic lifestyle of today’s age hardly allows us to explore humanities anyway, even if we are above 30. In this week’s theme, we find out how we can make some space to pursue philosophy and arts via interesting recommendations themed on it!
If you have more read, listen or watch recommendations, feel free to share them with the community as a post.
Book:
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
If you’ve read the book, do share what you thought about it in the post. Also share other reads you know from great thinkers in replies to the post.
Article:
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
Here’s an article where a noted critic shares the importance of consuming classic literature and arts in modern education. Let us know your thoughts in the post’s replies.
Podcast:
Learning for Life by Gustavus Adolphus College
In this podcast, History professor Greg Kaster explores the intersections of liberal arts learning, current events, and real-world problem-solving. Includes conversations with cancer and climate change researchers to behind-the-scenes glimpses into higher ed decision-making.
Video:
Human/IT: The Importance of Liberal Arts Education | by Jared Linder | TEDxBallStateUniversity | 13 Mins
Jared Linder is the CIO of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration. He stresses the importance of a liberal arts education.
Lessons To Pin - Why we sleep by Matthew Walker
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This week’s read: Why we sleep by Matthew Walker
The author, a neuroscientist and sleep researcher teach us about the science of sleep, why we even need it, and how one can unlock its potential to benefit our daily life.
Lessons from the previous week’s book: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Happening on Merrative
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Upcoming reading rooms
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The Waste Land by T.S Eliot: Saturday, 27th August 2021 | 8 PM IST | Poetry discussion
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