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		<title>Law and the Value of Classical Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Thetford]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 16:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA["The out-performance of classics majors isn't related to the facts and information they memorized or anything written on their diploma. It's related to the intellectual skills they developed in their studies. In a world where many students are memorizing terms and textbooks, students stand out who receive a real education in grammar, logic, and rhetoric. In other words, students who went to college to get an education outperformed students who went to college to get a degree."]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The relationship between college and vocation is popularly modeled something like this: This model is easily altered to accommodate careers which require postgraduate study, like law and medicine. There is something to be said for this model of college and vocation. It offers a definition of vocation: the career path which follows from the field you pick to study in college.</p>
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