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Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education as If Truth Mattered by Christopher Derrick β€” book cover

Escape from Scepticism: Liberal Education as If Truth Mattered

by Christopher Derrick
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Overview

The brilliant English writer Christopher Derrick presents a disturbing indictment of today's colleges and universities and the troubled condition of liberal education. The occasion for his writing this book was a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in California which deeply impressed Derrick with its true liberal and Catholic education. This small independent college convinced him of the need for reform in Catholic higher education today, and he uses the example of this college as the way this reform should be carried out.

Synopsis

The brilliant English writer Christopher Derrick presents a disturbing indictment of today's colleges and universities and the troubled condition of liberal education. The occasion for his writing this book was a visit to Thomas Aquinas College in California which deeply impressed Derrick with its true liberal and Catholic education. This small independent college convinced him of the need for reform in Catholic higher education today, and he uses the example of this college as the way this reform should be carried out.

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Book Details

Published
April 1, 2001
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pages
151
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780898708486

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