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College Guide to Liberal Learning pt6

Consequently, I often think these reflections, this guide to liberal learning, ought to bear a sort of saucy subtitle like, “How to Get an Education Even While Still in College.” We cannot really escape from the kinds of schools, media, and culture that are all around us by going someplace else. But we can, if we attend to it, realize that something is wrong, something more needs to be said, and that we have to search out alternatives to ourselves. The alternative we want is one that leads us to truth and wisdom, to right order and virtue, that leads us to ask where even these things lead us. Such things do not come automatically. We have to do our part. I intend these suggestions of books and ideas to be that alternative.

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