The physical fitness required to perform complex athletic feats has a parallel in the intellectual fitness it takes to perform complex mental tasks. At the heart of liberal education sits the idea that moderate training in several disciplines is better than intensive training in just one. Through exercising students' abilities in interpreting…

Study in language, literature, and culture has long been a defining feature of education in the liberal arts. Speaking, reading, and writing have traditionally stood at the heart of education because the arts of language and the tools of literacy are key qualifications for full participation in social, political, economic, and cultural life. Today…

Would-be lawyers would be well served by undergraduate study of the humanities. Law is by nature a humanistic discipline, and a law student who studies the humanities thoroughly could acquire the discipline to find the riches of value and meaning in law because he will have brought those riches to the law. (Author/MSE)