READINGS+FOR+THE+FINAL+EXAM

I will provide further details as I get them.
===As we begin discussing these readings in more depth, and as we read additional related writing, there are some "connection" or "dialogue" points between these two reading passages, and here are some of them.===

Points of dialogue between the readings include:
 * The purpose and value of different kinds of education/knowledge
 * Limitations of liberal education/ limitations of scientific education
 * "Practical" vs. Liberal Goals and Effects of Knowledge
 * Self-definition through education
 * Science and/or literature as self-exploration
 * Language shaping our lived experience/world
 * Reading literature vs. other kinds of reading
 * Tradition-Oriented vs. Future-Oriented Biases of education and knowledge
 * Impetus for social change and resistance via literature and science
 * Morality and Knowledge
 * The dangers of ignorance
 * The value and limitations of specialization and generalization of knowledge
 * The value/limits of science and technology v. value/limits of knowing literature
 * Definition of an “educated” person
 * Popular and Academic attitudes toward literature and the sciences

**C.P. Snow:**


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/books/review/Dizikes-t.html?pagewanted=all

**Vargas Llosa:**

 * Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech:**

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2010/vargas_llosa-lecture_en.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/08/vargas-llosa-nobel-address-political-literature

Science vs. the Humanities


http://blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca/UpbeaT/2009/11/25/sciences-vs-humanities-a-debate-after-class/

http://www.virtualsalt.com/libarted.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanities http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts

The Value of Education at all; Should you drop out?



 * Peter Thiel**

http://www.nea.org/home/48214.htm
 * Prof. Bill Lyne's response letter to Thiel**