ABSTRACT
This article suggests that the current difficulty in conceiving an intelligible defense of liberal education derives from its no longer intelligible roots in classical philosophy or cosmology. The article suggests a look back to those other Western roots, found preeminently in the Hebrew Scriptures, which present a cosmology strikingly not at logical odds with the discoveries of modern science, much more fully in harmony with the modern reverence for freedom, and supporting a sharp critique of the contemporary confusion concerning the prime locus of education, i.e. the family.
