What's a general education? Book by noted literary critic advocates return to the basics

"What do you think?" It’s a question most working in academe probably take for granted. But for others, it’s transformative. For Geoffrey Harpham, visiting scholar and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and former president and director of the National Humanities Center, the question captures the essence of a higher education, or at least what a higher education should be. It’s also the titular anecdote in his book on general education from the University...