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FeaturesMay 2008 Introduction: What was a liberal education? An introduction to our special issue on education. The real difficulty in modern education lies in the fact that, despite all the fashionable talk about a new conservatism, even that minimum of conservation and the conserving attitude without which education is simply not possible is in our time extraordinarily hard to achieve. When I ponder the recent itinerary ...
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