Aristotle Tag

25 Feb

Posted at 06:47h in Collegiate, Humanities, K-12

A liberal arts education, as a general concept, involves integrative learning—transdisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary study—through history. Such an inquisitive and broad approach to education produces well-rounded, better educated and happier, more fulfilled human beings. Many individuals throughout time, from Socrates to present, have suggested that a liberal arts education is one of the highest pursuits of humankind. In today’s world the liberal arts are usually best studied through integrative explorations in the humanities. According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities: “Integrative learning is an understanding and a disposition that a student builds across the curriculum and co-curriculum, from making simple...

24 Aug

Posted at 17:17h in Collegiate, Humanities

Principle Quotations Relating to the Great Idea of Change in Introduction to the Humanities which is a Best Seller on Kobo!  “Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance…” - George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan “(Motion) is nothing more than the action by which any body passes from one place to another.” - Rene Descartes “Reality is mobility…only changing states exist. Rest is never more than apparent, or, rather, relative.” - Henri Bergson “Energy may be called the fundamental cause for all change in the world.” - Heraclitus” “When the change from contrary to contrary is in quantity, it is ‘growth and diminution’; when it...