The Philosophy of the Curriculum: The Need for General Education

What should we educate for, and why? What constitutes a meaningful liberal education in modern times, as distinct from mere training for a vocation?
Every institution of higher education must periodically engage in a self-assessment of its educational goals and the extent to which they actually guide curricular practice. It can be said with confidence that the reflections contained in this book will, at the very least, serve as a powerful catalytic agent in precipitating out insights into the educational condition of our institutions of higher education and ways in which it can be improved.