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Cover Title Copyright Dedication Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Disputed Origins Section I Debates in Antiquity

Reason and Speech

1. Plato, Republic (370s B.C.) 2. Isocrates, Antidosis (340s B.C.)

Intellectual Inquiry and Social Engagement

3. Aristotle, Politics (c. 330 B.C.) 4. Cicero, On the Orator (55 B.C.)

Liberal Arts and Moral Improvement

5. Seneca the Younger, “On Liberal and Vocational Studies” (c. A.D. 63) 6. Quintilian, Education of the Orator (c. A.D. 95)

Section II Late Antiquity and Middle Ages: Christian Appropriation, Codification, and Female Imagery

Christian Appropriation of the Liberal Arts

7. Augustine, On Christian Learning (396, 426)

Codification of the Liberal Arts and their Female Images

8. Martianus Capella, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury (c. 425) 9. Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy (c. 524)

Christian Appropriation of the Codification

10. Cassiodorus, Introduction to Divine and Human Letters (c. 562) 11. Isidore of Seville, Origins or Etymologies in Twenty Books (c. 620s)

Transformation of the Female Images

12. Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies (c. 1404)

Section III In the modernus University, 1100s–1500

13. Founding of Universities, 1100s—1500 Schoolman

14. Peter Abelard, The Story of My Misfortunes (c. 1132)

Reformulation of Knowledge and the Liberal Arts

15. Hugh of St. Victor, Didascalicon (c. 1127) 16. John of Salisbury, Metalogicon (1159)

Ordinary Lecture

17. Aristotle, Posterior Analytics (c. 350 B.C.) 18. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the POSTERIOR ANALYTICS (c. 1259)

Disputation

19. Thomas Aquinas, Disputation concerning ON THE TRINITY (c. 1259)

Extraordinary Lecture

20. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the NICOMACHEAN ETHICS (c. 1258)

Universitas

21. University Statutes and Documents

Women on the Margin

22. Rules for Men and Women Teaching in Grammar Schools (c. 1357) 23. A Female Student at the University of Cracow (c. 1464)

Section IV The Humanist and Collegiate Traditions, 1350–1600

Humanist Tradition of Liberal Education

24. Francesco Petrarca, On His Own Ignorance and That of Many Others (1370) 25. Pier Paolo Vergerio, On Noble Character and Liberal Studies of Youth (c. 1402)

Collegiate Movement and Catholic Appropriation of “Humanistic Studies”

26. Ignatius Loyola, Constitutions of the Society of Jesus (1594)

Humanist Liberal Education of Women Outside of Colleges and Universities

27. Laura Cereta, Letters (1486, 1488) 28. Roger Ascham, Letters on Tutoring Queen Elizabeth I (1548–1550)

Section V Humanist, Scholastic, and Sectarian Strains in the Colonial College

29. Harvard College, New England’s First Fruits (1643) 30. Bathsua Makin, Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (1673) 31. Juana Inéz de la Cruz, “The Poet’s Reply” (1691) 32. Yale College, “Concerning Scholastic Exercises” ([1748], 1774) 33. College of New Jersey, An Account (1764)

Section VI Intellectual and Social Challenges to the College, 1790s–1850s

Revolutionary Influences on the Colleges

34. Samuel H. Smith, A System of Liberal Education (1798) 35. Emma Willard, A Plan for Improving Female Education (1819) 36. Liberal Arts Colleges Opened for Instruction, 1600–1820

Institutional Responses

37. Jeremiah Day, “Course of Instruction in Yale College” (1828) 38. Catalog of Dartmouth College for the Academical Year 1852–53 39. Catalog of Alfred University for the year ending June 30, 1858

Section VII Struggle between the University and the College, 1860s–1900s

40. Charles W. Eliot, “Many New Methods of Giving Instruction” (1880) Debate over “The Liberal Education of Women”

41. “The Question of Health” (1872) 42. Edward H. Clarke, Sex in Education (1873) 43. “The Sexes in College” (1870) 44. James H. Fairchild, “The Experience at Oberlin” (1867) 45. Mary Fairfax Somerville, “Testimony,” (1869) 46. Lydia Ernestine Becker, “On the Study of Science by Women” (1869)

Debate over the “New Departure” in Liberal Education

47. Charles W. Eliot, “Liberty in Education” (1885) 48. James McCosh, The New Departure in College Education (1885)

Role of the Liberal Arts College

49. William R. Harper, “The Situation of the Small College” (1900) 50. Booker T. Washington, “Industrial Education for the Negro” (1903) 51. W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Talented Tenth” (1903)

Section VIII Experimentation and Search for Coherence, 1910s–1930s

52. William T. Foster, Administration of the College Curriculum (1911) General Education

53. Lionel Trilling, “General Education and the American Preparatory System” (1973) 54. Daniel Bell, The Reforming of General Education (1966)

Citizenship

55. Edgar E. Robinson, “Problems of Citizenship,” Stanford University (1929)

Experimentation, Progressivism, “Great Books”

56. Kathryn McHale, “Future Possibilities in Liberal-Arts Education” (1932) 57. John Dewey, et al., The Curriculum for the Liberal Arts College (1931) 58. Robert M. Hutchins, The Higher Learning in America (1936)

Section IX The “Emerging Curricular Blueprint” of the Mid-Twentieth Century

59. Sarah V. Barnes, “ ‘Experimental’ Liberal Education for Women, 1939–1947” 60. Frank Aydelotte, Honors Work in American Colleges and Universities (1944) 61. Willis Rudy, The Evolving Liberal Arts Curriculum (1960) Liberalism and Liberal Education

62. Harold Taylor, “Individualism and the Liberal Tradition” (1958) 63. Paul O. Kristeller, “Liberal Education and Western Humanism” (1976) 64. Gerald Grant and David Riesman, Reform and Experiment in the American College (1978)

Section X Approaching the Past in the New Millennium

65. St. John’s College, “Statement of the Program” (2007) 66. Mary Louise Pratt, “The Western Culture Debate at Stanford” (1992) 67. Martha C. Nussbaum, A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education (1997) 68. Nancy D. Marcus, “Three Philosophical Heroes: King, Boethius, and Socrates” (2008) 69. Christopher Metress, “A Place for Silence: Benedict’s Rule and the Great Books Dialogue” (2008) 70. David C. Paris and Bruce A. Kimball, “Liberal Education: An Overlapping Pragmatic Consensus” (2000)

Glossary of Names Index

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