Why Choose Liberal Arts
2012réf. 2315599Notre Dame Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Pencil marginalia throughout otherwise an excellent copy. 2012 Trade Paperback. x 198 pp. In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student faculty member and administrator Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of students and their parents. Roche develops three overlapping arguments for a strong liberal arts education: first the intrinsic value of learning for its own sake including exploration of the profound questions that give meaning to life; second the cultivation of intellectual virtues necessary for success beyond the academy; and third the formative influence of the liberal arts on character and on the development of a sense of higher purpose and vocation. Together with his exploration of these three values―intrinsic practical and idealistic―Roche reflects on ways to integrate them interweaving empirical data with personal experience. Why Choose the Liberal Arts is an accessible and thought-provoking work of interest to students parents and administrators. University of Notre Dame Press paperback books
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