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All the candidates, regardless of party affiliation, should know something about the forthcoming months ["Open Season," Feb. 5]. They will be rejected if they engage in the personal attacks and name calling that we have witnessed in past elections. We need realistic solutions to real problems. They should fire their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 2/15/2007 | See Source »

Beyond these sweeping attributes, however, Faust’s character remains largely a mystery to the majority of students at her future home. In order to get a better idea of the new lady behind the Veritas, FM delved into Faust’s past to paint a picture, through...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Another Side of Faust | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

It is important too, of course, as many others have pointed out already, that we teach our students enough economics to read the business page, enough science to read the Science Times, and enough sense of irony to be able to get the jokes in the New Yorker. But when...

Author: By Sean D. Kelly | Title: What is General Education For? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

It used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century...

Author: By Sean D. Kelly | Title: What is General Education For? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

These may include, among many others, the heroic man of many devices that Homer presents to us in the character of Odysseus, the phronimos, or person of practical wisdom, portrayed by Aristotle, the Christ figure as presented in the New Testament or as interpreted by Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, Luther, Milton...

Author: By Sean D. Kelly | Title: What is General Education For? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

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