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The liberal arts & sciences
- Academic Life
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A charge to be curious about everything, find connections everywhere, stay open to new possibilities, re-examine all you’ve been told, dismiss what insults your soul (hat tip to Walt Whitman for those last two). In other words: Be more human. And use your humanity to be more.
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