Educación expandida: ampliando horizontes educativos pregon.com.ar - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pregon.com.ar Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The late Peter Ryan will be familiar to many readers of
The Age for his long-running column As I Please. But there was a lot more to Ryanâs life and works, as this compact biography demonstrates. He was once described as a âuniversal manâ â and that sounds about right.
As a man of action he spent a truly frightening time behind the lines in occupied New Guinea at 18 â an experience that bequeathed him military decorations and a lifetime of malaria. His classic
Fear Drive My Feet was based on this.
As a man of letters he was an author, newspaper columnist and director of publishing for 26 years at Melbourne University Press â where he published Manning Clarkâs six-volume
Book reviews: My Daughter s Wedding; The Hands of Pianists; The Breaking; Still Alive; Grimmish; Ryan s Luck; A Decade of Drift; One Italian Summer smh.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from smh.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What is it that distinguishes a liberal arts education from vocational training? It’s not simply breadth of exposure to the arts, the humanities and the social and natural sciences. It’s that a liberal education is meant to be transformative.
The higher purpose of liberal education is to free its recipients to think in fresh and more analytical and informed ways, appreciate culture with sophisticated sensibilities, and bring historical, ethical, cross-cultural perspectives to current events.
The skills and knowledge a liberal education imparts include not only disciplinary methods and theoretical and conceptual frameworks, but something far greater: heightened powers of observation and communication, interpretive and research skills, and a capacity for critical self-reflection.
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