"Why Liberal Education Matters" with Michael Roth, PhD

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In his highly acclaimed book Beyond the University (Yale University Press, 2014), President Roth examines the history of liberal education in America from Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rorty, and argues that a broad, self-critical and pragmatic education has, since the founding of the nation, cultivated individual freedom, promulgated civic virtue, and instilled hope for the future. These themes will be explored in President Roth's address to the USD community, in which he will explain how liberal education increases our capacity to understand and reshape the world.

Michael S. Roth is president of Wesleyan University, and the author of five books, including Psycho-Analysis as History (Cornell University Press, 1987) and Memory, Trauma, and History (Columbia University Press, 2012). He teaches history, film studies, and philosophy at Wesleyan, and his humanities classes reach many thousands through his open online Coursera courses.

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