C.S. Lewis, author, on the topic of Liberal Arts education:

Originally Posted by C.S. Lewis
Lewis contrasts liberal arts education with what he calls "vocational training," the sort that prepares one for

employment. Such training, he writes, "aims at making not a good man but a good banker, a good electrician,

. . . or a good surgeon." Lewis does admit the importance of such training – for we cannot do without bankers and

electricians and surgeons – but the danger, as he sees it, is the pursuit of training at the

expense of education. "If education is beaten by training, civilization dies," he writes, for "the lesson of history"

is that "civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost." It is the liberal arts,

not vocational training, that preserves civilization by producing reasonable men and responsible citizens.


A bit like this quote by Henry David Thoreau.

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