The Good Letters: The Decline of Literary Education and its Consequences

by Mark Anthony Signorelli (September 2010)

[ii] These are but a few examples, but they serve to reveal that a confidence in the economic utility of scientific and mathematical instruction, and the corollary prioritization of these subjects, are the ruling pedagogical dogmas of the age.
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[i] http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/11/study

[ii] http://nationalmathandscience.org/index.php/about-nmsi/about-nmsi.html

[iii] see Chapter One, Book Twelve of his Institutio Oratoria

[vi] Kallendorf, 161.

[viii] Sanderson, 21.

[ix] see Daedulus, or Science and the Future at http://home.att.net/~p.caimi/haldane.html

[x] cited in Dawkins, Richard The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989) 1.

[xi] http://www.nea.gov/news/news04/ReadingAtRisk.html

[xii] Blair, Hugh Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Carbondale, Ill., Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2005) 5-6.

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