1937 Time magazine piece on the 'New Program' at St. John's College.

Best-selling atheist Sam Harris and pro-religion blogger Andrew Sullivan debate God, faith, and fundamentalism.

A blog chronicling one family's experience educating their boys through what they call classical Christian homeschooling .

First Harvard College 'Core' curriculum overhaul in 30 years.

Liberal Education, Then and Now: J.S. Mill's idea of a university, and our own.

Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution Policy Review

Philip E. Lewis Appointed Vice President for the Liberal Arts Colleges Program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation .

Some reflections from a current student in the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults (Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago).

Complete text of Robert Maynard Hutchins: A Memoir, by Milton Mayer.

The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: essay ca. 1915 by John Erskine, early central figure in what has come to be known as the "Great Books movement" in the U.S.

Lion: A Memoir of Mark Van Doren  by Dan Wakefield (Ploughshares, Fall 1991)

One day I'll get round to these books by Susan Wise Bauer:

The Well-Educated Mind
A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

The Well-Trained Mind
A Guide to Classical Education at Home

What Should College Teach?  Rountable discussion with distinguished professsors.  MP3 from radioopensource.org .

 

 

Chapters One and Two of Robert M. Hutchins' Education for Freedom .

Complete text of the 1965 version of Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book (with Charles Van Doren).  The Jesus thing and the annoying language pack installation prompt?  No idea.

Liberal Education & Global Community by Martha Nussbaum.

I feel as though I should have known about this essay before now:

The Lost Tools of Learning
by Dorothy Sayers

Richard Dawkins on Why There Almost Certainly Is No God.

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online.

Education for Mutual Understanding?
Les Reid Jul 21, 04
Humanists and the Religious Education review in Northern Ireland

"Can believers and non-believers find common ground? In N Ireland we are so used to the perennial squabble between two varieties of Christianity that other forms of disagreement (and reconciliation, we hope) tend to be overlooked."

The End of Education
The Fragmentation of the American University

Commonweal
by Alasdair MacIntyre  

"What should be the distinctive calling of the American Catholic university or college here and now? It should be to challenge its secular counterparts by recovering both for them and for itself a less fragmented conception of what an education beyond high school should be, by identifying what has gone badly wrong with even the best of secular universities. From a Catholic point of view the contemporary secular university is not at fault because it is not Catholic. It is at fault insofar as it is not a university."