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Plato and Liberal Education – Part Two

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Plato and Liberal Education
II. What is Liberal Education?
We are used to distinguishing between two kinds of education: liberal and vocational. But Plato, while recognizing the need of developing the practical arts and professions, reserved the term “education”, at least in its absolute unrestricted sense, to what we would call liberal education. [...]

Plato and Liberal Education – Part One

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
[Editor's note: This article was originally published in From the Housetops in 1946. It is one of the most important summaries of our educational apostolate. The article is also included in the notes accompanying the course on Logic in Brother's lectures on Philosophia Perennis.]
Plato and Liberal Education
I. What is Education
Plato conceived [...]