Discussion Group

What Should an Educated Person Know?

The modern world affords unprecedented opportunities to learn, both within and outside formal institutions of education, an overwhelming variety of knowledge and skills. But how are we to decide what we need to know?

Wednesdays | 12.00-1.15pm | Elm Library

Sept 18 | Joseph Epstein, “Aristides’ Lifetime Reading Plan”
Sept 25 | E.H. Gombrich, “The Tradition of General Knowledge”
Oct 2 | William James, “The Social Value of the College-Bred”

This discussion group is open to all Yale students, undergraduate and graduate. Space is limited; sign up using the form below. For more information please contact Peter Wicks.

To know what we want in education we must know what we want in general, we must derive our theory of education from our philosophy of life.

T. S. Eliot, “Modern Education and the Classics”