Can Liberal Education Survive Liberal Democracy? - The New Atlantis

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/can-liberal-education-survive-liberal-democracy

Leo Strauss, in a well-known commencement address entitled "What is Liberal Education?", presented a number of striking formulations of the meaning of liberal education:

• Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society.
• Liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
• Liberal education consists in listening to the conversation among the greatest minds.
• Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.

_- Steve