Books about the Importance of a
Liberal Arts Education
Adler, Mortimer J., and Charles
Van Doren: How to Read a Book, Simon and Schuster, 1972.
Adler, Mortimer J.,
and Milton Mayer: The Revolution in Education, University of Chicago Press,
1958.
Barzun, Jacques: The
American University, Harper and Row, 1970. Teacher in America, Little Brown
and Co., 1945.
Bell, Daniel: The Reforming
of General Education, Columbia University Press, 1966.
Bestor, Arthur E.:
Educational Wastelands, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1953.
Bloom, Alan: Closing
of the American Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1987.
Brann, Eva: The Paradoxes
of Education in a Republic, University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Bruner, Jerome S.:
The Process of Education, Harvard University Press, 1960.
Buchanan, Scott: Embers
of the World, edited by Harris Wofford, Jr., Center for the Study of Democratic
Institutions, Santa Barbara, California, 1970.
Darkey, William (Editor
et al): Three Dialogues on Liberal Education, St. John's College Press,
1979.
Erskine, John: My Life
as a Teacher, J.B. Lippincott Co., 1948. Goldwin, Robert A. (Editor): Higher
Education and Modern Democracy, Rand McNally and Co., 1967.
Grant, Gerald and David
Reisman: The Perpetual Dream: Reform and Experiment in the American College,
University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Harvard Committee Report:
Gernal Education in a Free Society , The University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1945.
Hutchins, Robert M.:
The Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society, Harper and Brothers,
1953. Education for Freedom, Louisiana State University Press, 1943.
The Higher Learning
in America, Yale University Press, 1936.
The Learning Society,
Praeger, 1968.
No Friendly Voice,
Greenwood, 1936. University of Utopia, University of Chicago Press, 1953.
Lewis, C. S.: The Abolition
of Man, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1947.
Maritain, Jacques:
Education at the Crossroads, Yale University Press, 1943.
Meiklejohn, Alexander:
Education Between Two Worlds, Harper and Brothers, 1942.
Smith, J. Winfree:
A Search for the Liberal College; The Beginning of the St. John's Program,
St. John's College Press, 1983.
Van Doren, Mark: Liberal
Education: Henry Holt and Co., 1944.
