The Rescue of Socrates and the Liberal Education

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The book is fundamentally about just that issue, liberal education. The idea there was what kind of education is appropriate for a free individual in the context of Athenian democracy as a citizen. They made laws, they sat on juries, they made foreign policy. Every aspect of Athenian city life was determined democratically by debate and deliberation. That's what liberal education is.

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Roosevelt Montás. A Senior Lecturer at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He was Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia College from 2008 to 2018. . a renaissance man who loves literature and writing, as well as being the director of Columbia University's Freedom and Citizenship Program.He speaks and writes on the history, meaning, and future of liberal education and is author of Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation