A Students Guide To Liberal Learning

Author : James V. Schall
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645069
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Liberal Learning written by James V. Schall and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Georgetown professor’s look at the subjects one needs to study for a truly well-rounded education. A Student’s Guide to Liberal Learning is an inviting conversation with a learned scholar about the content of an authentic liberal arts education. It surveys ideas and books central to the tradition of humanistic education that has fundamentally shaped our country and our civilization. This accessible volume argues for an order and integration of knowledge so that meaning might be restored to the haphazard approach to study currently dominating higher education. Freshly conveying the excitement of learning from the acknowledged masters of intellectual life, this guide is also an excellent blueprint for building one’s own library of books that matter.

Author : Gene C. Fant Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433531267
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Arts written by Gene C. Fant Jr. and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent liberal arts education holds purpose-giving and society-shaping power. But how do we tap into that power and make the most of liberal learning for the glory of God? Professor Gene Fant teaches how to maximize a liberal arts education by outlining its history, criticisms, purposes, and benefits. Ultimately, he shows that liberal learning equips us to become spiritually and intellectually empathetic people who are passionate about serving God, the church, and the world.

Author : Wilburn T. Stancil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Liberal Arts written by Wilburn T. Stancil and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the the study of liberal arts for students coming into US-modeled college study for the first time.

Author : Mark C Henrie
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 149764514X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Core Curriculum written by Mark C Henrie and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This slender volume explains the merits of getting an old-fashioned liberal arts education” (The American Spectator). College students today have tremendous freedom to choose the courses they will take. With such freedom, however, students face a pressing dilemma: How can they choose well? Which courses convey the core of an authentic liberal arts education, transmitting our civilizational inheritance, and which courses are merely passing fads? From the smorgasbord of electives available, how can students achieve a coherent understanding of their world and their place in history? In a series of penetrating essays, A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum explains the value of a traditional core of studies in Western civilization and then surveys eight courses available in most American universities which may be taken as electives to acquire such an education. This guide puts “the best” within reach of every student.

Author : Daniel N. Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610170413
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Psychology written by Daniel N. Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Robinson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645123
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Psychology written by Daniel Robinson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise overview of the field of psychology—its historical roots, its most influential thinkers, and its role in the modern world. Psychology is frequently the most popular major on campus, but it can also be the most treacherous. In this guide, Daniel N. Robinson surveys the philosophical and historical roots of modern psychology and sketches the major schools and thinkers of the discipline. He also identifies those false prejudices—such as contempt for metaphysics and the notion that the mind can be reduced to the chemical processes of the brain—that so often perplex and mislead students of psychology. He ends by calling for psychology to investigate more intensively the problems of moral and civic development. Readers will find Robinson’s book to be an indispensable orientation to this culturally influential field.

Author : Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645190
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Classics written by Bruce S. Thornton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise introduction to the literature of Greece and Rome. Bruce Thornton’s crisp and informative Student’s Guide to Classics provides readers with an overview of each of the major poets, dramatists, philosophers, and historians of ancient Greece and Rome. Including short bios of major figures and a list of suggested readings, Thornton’s guide is unparalleled as a brief introduction to the literature of the classical world.

Author : R.V. Young
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645077
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Literature written by R.V. Young and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the works of Western literature that have stood the test of time—and discover titles to enrich your own book collection. A Student’s Guide to Literature takes up these questions: In a time of mass culture and pulp fiction, can great literature still be discerned, much less defended? Why is literature so compelling? What should we read? Literary scholar R. V. Young addresses these timely issues in this guide to Western literature and poetry. He demonstrates that literature liberates the mind from cultural and temporal provincialism by expanding our intellectual and emotional horizons. Learn how great fiction and poetry are integral to a liberal education, and visit the classic works of literature again—or for the first time.

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645166
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to the Study of History written by John Lukacs and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful look at the value of learning from the past: “Nobody has done more than John Lukacs to turn the short history book into an art form” (Antony Beevor, Toronto Globe & Mail). To study history is to learn about oneself. And to fail to grasp the importance of the past—to remain ignorant of the deeds and writing of previous generations—is to bind oneself by the passions and prejudices of the age into which one is born. John Lukacs, one of today’s most widely published historians, explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today’s students. This guide is an invitation to become a master of the historian’s craft.

Author : Paul Heyne
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497645042
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Guide to Economics written by Paul Heyne and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes economies work—or not work? This concise overview of the field’s great thinkers offers a wealth of information. Paul Heyne, one of the nation’s best-selling economists, provides an accessible overview of the discipline of economics. Economic knowledge, he contends, is not complete without reference to the totality of human society—a realization essential to a proper understanding of the fundamental principles of economics. The sweep of economic thinking is presented here with reference to the great economists and important schools of thought.