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George Harne: Liberal Education and “The Symphony of Knowing”

September 24, 2021

ACTA’s Jonathan Pidluzny and Nathaniel Urban interview George Harne, Executive Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas in Texas. “Liberal education is almost like becoming a conductor in training,” Dr. Harne says. “The goal is to be able to get a vision of an integrated whole, to know the natures of things, the essences of things, and then to know their objective relations with one another. . . Being liberally educated also means as you continue to learn, being able to integrate that new knowledge into the symphony of knowing.” 

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