Mark Edmundson's On The Uses Of A Liberal Education

Mark Edmundson’s interesting essay, “On the Uses of a Liberal Education,” written in 1997, explained how university education have changed. Then the focus was to cater to the consumers rather than challenge them similar to how it is today. Professors made their courses more appealing and interesting to gain good evaluations, rather than making their courses rigorous to prepare students for the real world. Even though Edmundson described how university education was in 1997, there is a similar characteristic in today’s university education, teacher evaluations. Teacher evaluations can be harmful and effective. Every teacher must go through that awkward moment at the end of each semester where that have to step out of their class, so their students