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  2. Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia

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    Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on August 7, 1966; however, his birth certificate lists his date of birth as August 8. [4] His father, Jimmy Sr., [5] was a grocery store manager, while his mother, Doris Ann (née Dudley), and his grandmother, Erma, ran the House of Learning, [6] [7] a small private school in the tradition of the one-room schoolhouse, where Wales and his three siblings ...

  3. Liberal arts education - Wikipedia

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    Liberal arts education (from Latin liberalis 'free' and ars 'art or principled practice') [ 1 ] is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. [ 2 ]Liberal arts takes the term art in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the fine arts.

  4. Liberal education - Wikipedia

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    Liberal education. A liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free (Latin: liber) human being. It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment. [1] It has been described as "a philosophy of education that empowers individuals ...

  5. Classical education in the Western world - Wikipedia

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    Classical education in the Western world. Classical education in the Western world refers to a long-standing tradition of pedagogy that traces its roots back to ancient Greece and Rome, where the foundations of Western intellectual and cultural life were laid. At its core, classical education is centered on the study of the liberal arts, which ...

  6. Some are skeptical about the value of liberal arts. These ...

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    The question of the liberal arts university's survival is not a new one. Skepticism about the value of a liberal arts education, the cost-of-attendance sticker shock, a renewed focus on job ...

  7. Educational perennialism - Wikipedia

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    Educational perennialism is a normative educational philosophy. Perennialists believe that the priority of education should be to teach principles that have persisted for centuries, not facts. Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, rather than machines or techniques, and about liberal, rather than vocational, topics.

  8. Auburn University - Wikipedia

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    Website. auburn.edu. Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 26,800 undergraduate students, over 6,100 post-graduate students, and a total enrollment of more than 34,000 students with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second-largest university in Alabama.

  9. Yale College - Wikipedia

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    Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University.Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, when its schools were confederated and the institution was renamed Yale University.