A new generation of teachers envisions a liberal arts education
that is good for everyone. Why would anyone study the liberal
arts? It’s no secret that the liberal arts have fallen out
of favor and are struggling to prove their relevance. The cost of
college pushes students to majors and degrees with more obvious
career outcomes. A new cohort of educators isn’t taking this
lying down. They realize they need to reimagine and
rearticulate what a liberal arts education is for, and what it
might look like in today’s world. In this book, they make an
honest reckoning with the history and current state of the liberal
arts. You may have heard – or asked – some of these questions
yourself: Aren’t the liberal arts a waste of time? How will
reading old books and discussing abstract ideas help us feed the
hungry, liberate the oppressed and reverse climate
change? Actually, we first need to understand what we mean by
truth, the good life, and justice. Aren’t the liberal arts
racist? The “great books” are mostly by privileged dead
white males. Despite these objections, for centuries the
liberal arts have been a resource for those working for a better
world. Here’s how we can benefit from ancient voices while
expanding the conversation. Aren’t the liberal arts
liberal? Aren’t humanities professors mostly progressive
ideologues who indoctrinate students? In fact, the liberal
arts are an age-old tradition of moral formation, teaching people
to think for themselves and learn from other perspectives. Aren’t
the liberal arts elitist? Hasn’t humanities education too
often excluded poor people and minorities? While that has
sometime been the case, these educators map out well-proven ways to
include people of all social and educational backgrounds. Aren’t
the liberal arts a bad career investment? I really just want
to get a well-paying job and not end up as an overeducated
barista. The numbers – and the people hiring – tell a
different story. In this book, educators mount a vigorous
defense of the humanist tradition, but also chart a path
forward, building on their tradition’s strengths and addressing
its failures. In each chapter, dispatches from innovators describe
concrete ways this is being put into practice, showing that the
liberal arts are not only viable today, but vital to our future.
*** Contributors include Emily Auerbach, Nathan Beacom, Jeffrey
Bilbro, Joseph Clair, Margarita Mooney Clayton, Lydia Dugdale, Brad
East, Don Eben, Becky L. Eggimann, Rachel Griffis, David
Henreckson, Zena Hitz, David Hsu, L. Gregory Jones, Brandon McCoy,
Peter Mommsen, Angel Adams Parham, Steve Prince, John Mark
Reynolds, Erin Shaw, Anne Snyder, Sean Sword, Noah Toly, Jonathan
Tran, and Jessica Hooten WilsonÂ
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