Several authors, like Bill Coplin and Marshal Gregory have very strong views about liberal education. Coplin, believes schools should be more job preparation oriented, while Gregory feels the need of liberal arts isn’t just about getting a job, but about being able to find our purpose in life and live our lives fully. Another article written by Jerry Logan and Janel Curry expresses feelings very similar to those of Gregory’s. The approach taken by Gregory, Logan, and Curry gives a very strong case for why Christians should pursue a liberal education. Christian liberal arts education prepares people for their careers, while also preparing people to be ready to do whatever God may ask of them.…
In “Can a liberal arts education really make us better?” by Richard Kamber, he argues that even though a liberal arts education can make us better, it depends solely on that person’s definition of better. Now the question on everyone’s mind, “What are liberal arts?” A liberal arts education gives us a general review of humanities, arts, and sciences. Liberal arts are usually delivered in small classes, full of active participants, by “seasoned faculty.” They aim to develop our character and provide us with an immense amount of skills, which ultimately gives us more money. Though often looked down upon, liberal arts have helped shape many great people such as Socrates, Giordano Gentile, Galileo, and Martin Heidregger.…
The liberal art schools give one the information that one can use to liberate themselves from the default setting into a person who's well…
1. What two (2) important results are liberal arts courses attempting to produce? Liberal arts was expanded to include natural and social sciences such as biology and psychology. Second colleges allowed students to select a particular major or course study.…
According to Cronon, the liberal arts is the freedom to study your interests while on the other hand a liberal education is becoming a mindful, well-rounded person.…
Liberal arts are defined as “college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills.” (Merriam-Webster). Wallace however argues that a liberal arts education means being conscious about your thoughts, and having some sense of control over them and the experience you’ll gain from them. That could mean exercising control over what you think, and changing it to benefit more people than just…
Nowadays, education is more and more common, most of the people who live in developed or developing country have a chance to go to school. However, the purpose of learning knowledge is changed, a lot of people who go to university because they are told that the degree is a guarantee of making good money. Since the purpose is making more money and due to the fact that liberal art majors are not directly relate to most jobs, a lot of people argue that Liberal art is a useless major, and people should take business or science major. They believe that taking liberal art majors is not beneficial to their career. In Edward Conard’s essay “We don’t need more humanities majors”, he basically mentions that humanities major…
But even though the word liberal is used in both cases, “a liberal education (...) has nothing whatsoever to do with politics(...)”(Ungar 230). This means that there is a difference and a Liberal Arts degree should not be devalued by men and women who devalue themselves with open arguments that do not even go far enough to state a true point. Everyone hopes to be better than that and learning of the arts and sciences is certainly a way to…
An education in liberal arts can give a person many choices and opportunities concerning what kind of job he/she wants in the future. According to Harris’ “Once you develop good thinking habits, you will be able to perform better in any job, but more importantly, the happier life will be” (1), Harris suggests that liberal arts education helps to have a satisfying and comfortable life. When a person graduates from liberal arts education, he/she will get a gratifying job that will make him/her feel like he/she has a strong personality. Needle, Corbo, Wong, Greenfeder et al (2007) point out that liberal arts education is a good choice for the future to have more options for jobs, which they expressed in their article “Combining Arts and Science In ‘Arts and Sciences’ Education” published in the journal College Teaching on pages 114-120. The purpose of the article is to persuade us to study the liberal arts for a good life. The article has a positive tone because it is optimistic. The mode of the article is illustrative. The main idea of the article is to encourage people to study liberal arts because it can give them a better future. Needle et al states, “Today’s liberal arts education is viewed as preparing students for the real world” (114). Needle et al suggests that graduating with a degree in liberal arts will make you ready for real life. In addition, liberal arts will teach you and make you understand more about life. I found that the two articles are similar in their goal which is to talk about liberal arts and how it is important in a person’s life because a liberal arts education gives you more opportunities for a great job and a better…
In today's society, education is more liberal, allowing people to think for themselves and providing them with a broader education. This differs from many years ago, when education was more conservative. Education was very basic, consisting of only academic classes and no electives. People with a more conservative education would never go against what they were taught. However, liberally educated people of today can go against what they are taught, research it themselves, and make new conclusions about their studies. A liberal education enables people to deal with the forces that control their life. It frees them from the restraints in everyday life. Having such a broad education allows people to deal with such forces. Four psychologists have written essays and constructed theories that can agree that liberal education is of a greater stature than conservatively educated. The essays are "The Theory of Multiple Intelligences," written by Howard Gardner, "The Personal and Collective Unconscious," written by Carl Jung, "The Allegory of the Cave," written by Plato, and "From the Interpretation of Dreams," written by Sigmund Freud.…
Jeremiah Conway writes The liberal Arts and Contemporary Culture and is bothered about how liberal arts is being taken for granted. He feels that this is a problem and it needs to be addressed. He makes it known that children will lack becoming educated in the future because science and technology is hindering there learning. If this problem is not approached then liberal arts would be ignored. They will be at risk of living in this world without any regards of life. Conway used an example of a “fish” not knowing what water was. This informs readers that people take education and life for graduated (2010, 4). What children do not understand is that they have the opportunity to gain knowledge but cannot due to technology and money. It becomes hard for them understand that being educated in liberal arts is better than having a one-track mind. If they want to become a scientist they will only learn the scientific method and equations. Moreover, they may not know basic home economic skill because they do not have an understanding of other disciplines.…
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, liberal arts curriculum is divided into three main branches which are humanities, physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and the social sciences (liberal arts, 2017). Further explanations define liberal arts as a study that prepares individuals to be leaders in serving others instead of self (Guthrie & Callahan, 2016). Since beginning classes in January, I have taken many classes at Bethel University, but I have not had classes that are specifically liberal arts. Even so, the English classes that I have taken are Introduction to University Writing, Expository Writing, and English Composition 2; each of these required writing essays and research papers. While conducting research for papers…
Liberal Education’s main purpose in not only to train someone for a specific position, but also to create or develop skills that can be utilized in any profession. However, I believe that the liberal arts are under pressure and in danger in today’s society. The threat that is overwhelming Liberal Education is cuts in programs and funding in private and public schools.…
2. Going to a liberal arts college is like training for the Olympics without knowing what event you are going to participate in. You have to make sure that you are the best you can be in every way. You would have to be a great runner, swimmer and even gymnast because you would not know which event you could be called to. In a liberal arts college you learn a little bit about every subject so that you are prepared to do anything in life. College is different from preparing for the Olympics without knowing what event you will be competing in because eventually, during college you can choose a major and tailor your classes to fit what you would like to do with your life.…
To start off, we need to define what a liberal arts education actually is. A liberal arts education is often known as general education, or gen. eds., in college. It is all the classes that a majority…