Comments on: Week in Review: Big Questions Edition http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/week-in-review-big-questions-edition/ From InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:08:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tom Grosh http://blog.emergingscholars.org/2009/11/week-in-review-big-questions-edition/comment-page-1/#comment-2112 Tom Grosh Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:15 +0000 http://blog.emergingscholars.org/?p=1616#comment-2112 More on Liberal Arts Education: In "A Defender of the Liberal Arts Contemplates Their Changing Role" (David Glenn. Chronicle of Higher Education. 11/10/09, http://chronicle.com/article/A-Defender-of-the-Liberal-Arts/49098/), writer Azar Nafisi responds to the question, "Why is it important for non-literature majors to study literature? Couldn't those courses be seen as a distraction from learning to be a competent doctor, or accountant, or whatever?" "A. The great arguments about the value of the liberal arts for the professions have come from Martha Nussbaum. … Reading literature teaches you a way of thinking that is complicated and ambiguous. It prepares you for the ambiguities of your profession. It gives you density of thought. ..." More on Liberal Arts Education: In “A Defender of the Liberal Arts Contemplates Their Changing Role” (David Glenn. Chronicle of Higher Education. 11/10/09, http://chronicle.com/article/A-Defender-of-the-Liberal-Arts/49098/), writer Azar Nafisi responds to the question, “Why is it important for non-literature majors to study literature? Couldn’t those courses be seen as a distraction from learning to be a competent doctor, or accountant, or whatever?”

“A. The great arguments about the value of the liberal arts for the professions have come from Martha Nussbaum. … Reading literature teaches you a way of thinking that is complicated and ambiguous. It prepares you for the ambiguities of your profession. It gives you density of thought. …”

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