I am Mark Langley. In case you didn't notice, I am all about liberal education.
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Category Archives: college
Catholic Liberal Education And Respect For Life
Over the past several days I have been stewing over a proposition that seems perfectly obvious to me but which, I am afraid, will be offensive to the vast majority of good and well-intentioned people who choose to send their children … Continue reading
All Hail the Common Core!
Amazing! I thought that public schools could not adopt a curriculum that is any more utilitarian than they already have! But thanks to the new almost universally adopted so-called “Common Core” we can look forward to an even more pragmatic … Continue reading
Posted in classical education, college, education, Liberal Arts, Modernists
Tagged Charles William Eliot, Common Core, francis bacon, Obamacore, utilitarianism
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Major In Business or Philosophy?
I am by no means an expert in the history of philosophy (although I feel pretty comfortable with what happened between the three hundred years, say… between 624 B.C. and 322 B.C.) But just what happened afterwards begins to get slightly … Continue reading
On Writing Letters of Recommendation
I have only met one person that really expressed true regret about a specific educational decision – and that was his decision to attend a fairly prestigious Catholic college somewhere in Massachusetts. He said that the experience almost drove him … Continue reading
