Toward Liberal Education: Readings for Liberal Education, Volume One

xiii, 768 pp. Volume one. Contributors include James Thurber, Francis Bacon, H.L. Mencken, Thomas H. Huxley, Alfred Hitchcock, Raymond Chandler, Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Margaret Mead, John Dos Passos, Henry David Thoreau, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Bertrand Russell, C.S. Lewis, Rene Descartes, John Locke, William James, among others. In this volume of Readings for Liberal Education, the first three parts are concerned with the skills of a liberal education: learning, reading and writing, and thinking. The four parts that follow these represent the great areas of liberal learning: the arts, science, society, and philosophy and religion.