since plato's academy and aristotle's lyceum, we have created institutions that are set slightly askew from the city. the purpose of which is to look critically upon the world, society and the individual. those who inhabit these institutions, whether we think of them as philosophers or scholars are tasked with asking questions and seeking answers. some of the questions, those that have qualities we can measure, are quantitative. others, those for which we try to judge what is better or worse, are qualitative. roughly speaking, these two strands give us the scientists and the humanities. these two ways of knowing the world form theartes liberale wheres a human might seek freedom. higher education is predicated upon the belief that man is rational, a creature capable of exercising powers in an analytical and clutter -- in critical fashion. the greeks knew well that men is not an exclusively rational creature. that he is rather a being composed of complex, competing elements. plato's image was that of reason as a charioteer, flying across the sky, being pulled by two wild horses, one repr