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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The liberal arts destroyed themselves. Outside of a few institutions holding the line (St Johns and a collection of tiny classics-focused religious colleges), there's not much intellectual seriousness left. This is as true of selective institutions as it is of the Community College of Eastern Northwest South Dakota. [/quote] Not every humanities person needs to go into Classics. There are other parts of our culture to study. Even then, St Johns students are pretty bad Classics students and mediocre English literature students. They don't learn the languages well enough for classics, and they hardly read enough literary theory or actual practice of writing texts to go into English. It's cool that they preserve the liberal arts tradition, but they are worse than the average student in all the fields they study: religious studies, English, Classics, Middle Eastern Studies, etc.[/quote]
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