8 Books That Read Like an Education Most Universities Have Forgotten to Offer

8 Books That Teach What Most Universities Leave Out (Picture Credit – Instagram) What is a liberal education actually for? Once, the answer was clear. It was the broad, slow, generalist training of a curious mind across history, science, art, language, and politics, until the student could think well about almost anything. Most modern universities have quietly given up on this. Undergraduate degrees have narrowed into pre-professional tracks. Cross-disciplinary thinking is treated as a hobby. The eight books on this list, written by serious people across the last half century, between them deliver the kind of education the modern university…