Document Type
Program
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
Education promises to be the key to a good life in the twenty-first century. College students often load up on debt only to graduate into an economy that does not offer enough high-paying jobs for them to prosper financially. Increasingly under scrutiny to produce quantifiable results, public school teachers and university professors struggle to define and defend the goals of liberal education and, especially, the value of the humanities. Journalists report and analysts of all sorts note the gap between expectations and realities. Even in a community inspired by the Promise, the promise of education can sometimes seem precarious. We invite you to join us as leading voices in our national discussion talk about the project of bettering ourselves and our communities through education.
WMU ScholarWorks Citation
University Center for the Humanities, "The Promise of Education 2017-2018" (2017). University Center for the Humanities Events. 28.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/humanities_events/28