No true commitment or pursuit of an initial interest is possible without the gradual and general diffusion of one's talent and motivation that takes place in a liberal arts environment academically and socially. ... Thus, the hope for true specialization and faculty of self-worship grows less and less as the forces of liberal education sets in throughout our higher education systems. ... In these circumstances, there is little pressure to overcome the obstacles of learning, for exists a lack of sense of friendship, testing of one's insights against those of their peers, a desi...

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Adeline Virginia Woolf, better known to her readers as Virginia Woolf, also know to occasionally write under the pen name Stephen (if Woolf had been a man, she would probably had gone to university), was educated at home by her father: The women artists of the time were unwanted at the universities thus barred from attending and kept in solitude in there own homes tending to the children and/or other household necessities which led to the painful restriction of friendship. ... Furthermore, a women's tradition in writing to this point, had only just reared its head, thus women were gener...

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