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A quotation from Thoreau

We seem to have forgotten that the expression “a liberal education” originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of trades and professions by which to get your livelihood merely, was considered worthy of slaves only.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Speech (1860-07-04), “The Last days of John Brown,” North Elba, Massachusetts

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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There is more to Jack London than "The Call of the Wild" and "To Build a Fire".

Jack London, Martin Eden and the liberal education in US life | Aeon Essays

https://aeon.co/essays/jack-london-martin-eden-and-the-liberal-education-in-us-life

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A quotation from Fry, Stephen:

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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation. Wine can be a wiser teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books. That was my theory at least, and I was living by it.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/fry-stephen/62338/

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A quotation from Griswold, Whitney:

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Liberal learning is both a safeguard against false ideas of freedom and a source of true ones.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/griswold-alfred-whitney/60801/

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> William James said that an educated person knows a good man when he sees one. There are standards and a style for every type of activity — manual, athletic, intellectual, or artistic; and the educated man should be one who can tell sound from shoddy work in a field outside his own. General education is especially required in a democracy..
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207971
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Screenshot of a pargagraph from the FullText of the book linked in the post. The text is:
> In this epoch in which almost all of us must be experts in some field in order to make a living, general education therefore assumes a peculiar importance. Since no one can become an expert in all fields, everyone is compelled to trust the judgment of other people pretty thoroughly in most areas of activity. I must trust the advice of my doctor, my plumber, my lawyer, my radio repairman, and so on. Therefore I am in peculiar need of a kind of sagacity by which to distinguish the expert from the quack, and the better from the worse expert. From this point of view, the aim of general education may be defined as that of providing the broad critical sense by which to recognize competence in any field. William James said that an educated person knows a good man when he sees one. There are standards and a style for every type of activity — manual, athletic, intellectual, or artistic; and the educated man should be one who can tell sound from shoddy work in a field outside his own. General education is especially required in a democracy where the public elects its leaders and officials; the ordinary citizen must be discerning enough so that he will not be deceived by appearances and will elect the candidate who is wise in his field.

I should get used to using Hubzilla Wiki pages to use photo albums, with some concentrated practice it should become second nature. It's probably taking so long because of experience with similar markdown formats, and with bbcode in Hubzilla, and I don't have enough experience to switch among the various dialects.
https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/LewisMumford/ConductOfLife
#Hubzilla #Wiki start for #LewisMumford books in #Japanese #Translation working towards a #LiberalEducation or #Humanities approach for #FreedomLearning

A Start Page search for the Japanese translation of a #MikeDavis interview on #TomDispatch turned up a writing I did about the #EnglishThroughPictures books. I wish I could find that org-file again, but I've been thinking of recreating the quote and source pointers with #racket 's #scribble for a while. But it was hard for me to focus on writing while using scribble. https://www.gdm-japan.net/uploads/yearbooks/yearbook_68.pdf
#GDM #IaRichards #LiberalEducation #FreedomLearning #humanities

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