As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.