> On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Ron Andrico <[email protected]> wrote: > > Liberal, from the Latin liberalis, means ample, free or generous.
That may be true, but “liberal education,” "liberal arts,” or “liberal studies” has/had a different, and more specific, meaning: “those studies which are the proper pursuit of a free man,” and consisted of the sciences of the quadrivium — music, mathematics, geometry and astronomy (or astrology; there wasn’t always much difference): and the three studies of the trivium — grammar, logic and rhetoric. These days it has come to mean "A major you pick in college when you don't know what to do with yourself." To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
