Undergraduate General Liberal Education
and related subjects

"The common folk get drunk; educated young people with nothing to do consume themselves with unrealizable dreams and fancies, and stultify themselves with theories . . ." (Svidrigaylov, in Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment)

Booth, Wayne C., "The Idea of a University As Seen by a Rhetorician," 1987 Ryerson Lecture
     Intro by Hanna Gray

Comenius (Jan Amos Komenský), The Great Didactic and the Analytical Didactic

Dewey, John, a few passages from Human Nature and Conduct.

Erskine, John, "The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent."

Hutchins, R. M., Works.

Kimball, Bruce, Orators and Philosophers.

McGrath, Earl J., Works.

McKeon, Richard, Essays.

Nef, John U., Universities Look for Unity, the powerful founding manifesto of the Committee on Social Thought.

Schwab, Joseph, College Curriculum and Student Protest (1969)--95% of what's valuable is in the first 100 pages--and other essays.

Suetonius, De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus [On Teachers of Grammar and Rhetoric], tr. Robert A. Kaster (1995).