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This chapter examines the ways in which liberalism undermines liberal education. First, liberalism undermines education by detaching the educational enterprise itself from culture and making it an engine of anticulture. Second, liberalism undermines education by replacing a definition of liberty as an education in self-government with liberty as autonomy and the absence of constraint. Under liberalism, the liberal arts are instruments of personal liberation, an end that is consistently pursued in the humanities, in the scientific and mathematical disciplines (STEM), and in economics and business. The chapter discusses the collapse of the liberal arts in America, especially in universities, following the redefinition of liberty and argues that we need to rescue liberal education from the tentacles of liberalism. |
