November 07, 2008

Stanley Fish and his ideal of the American university.
A review of Fish's Save the World on Your Own Time
by Peter Berkowitz
Weekly Standard,  11/03/2008
 
'Many people have as difficult a time hearing and giving due weight to the liberal in "liberal education" as they have in hearing and giving due weight to the liberal in "liberal democracy." But in both cases the adjective is critical: A liberal education is a specific form of education, one that fits individuals for freedom; and a liberal democracy is a specific form of popular government, one that protects individual freedom by limiting majority power.'
 

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