Word: bildungs
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...that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then...
...order that students may become "wiser and better" for themselves and for society. Liberal education presumes that a broad education will liberate the individual by offering opportunities for foundational knowledge, reflection and analysis, artistic creativity and an appreciation for the precision of scientific concepts and experiments. It stresses Bildung over Übung, emphasizing disinterested knowledge for its own sake, resisting pressures for early specialization and professionalization. Professional education is in the proud tradition of many great universities, but it is not the mission of our undergraduate college. Our students will devote some significant part of their time to special...
Klein won't be the only one welcoming the New Year from the Widener stacks. Lowell House resident Julia M. Sullivan '86 plans to end her break on December 27, in order to get back to work on her analysis of bildung in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Mark Twain...
...This has taken over my whole life," Sullivan says. "It's become an obsession. Reading for pleasure has stopped--I look for bildung in everything I read...
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