“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society‚ and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. “ –A. Bartlett Giamatti My liberal education experience has been limited thus far in my college career as I have had the Liberal Studies major for merely a semester. Although I have had one liberal studies class my opinion on what a liberal education is and can be for a student has greatly changed in a single semester. I transferred to Grand Valley after completing my general
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A liberal arts education not only enhances wisdom and faith but also allows people to see things in their entirety. A liberal arts education is advantageous in our development progress throughout life‚ by permitting us to perceive things in their completeness. In fact‚ studying liberal arts allowed me to link the information from a particular course with previous information from liberal arts courses‚ thereby‚ availing me to obtain further fullness in my understanding. This correlation process
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I received your letter wondering how a liberal arts education would benefit a medical student. This is a very common debate that has come up lately. A liberal arts education is something that most colleges are beginning to require. There are many factors that come into play when talking about a liberal arts education‚ especially when relating that education to the schooling of a medical student. The two types of education are drastically diverse‚ yet both are vital to have a durable career in the
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In order to truly understand what a liberal arts education leads to and its specific benefits‚ it is paramount that one understands the basic premise of a liberal arts education. After identifying the basic foundation of the liberal arts education as all-encompassing‚ the main purpose of glorifying God through learning is realized. Following this main purpose‚ it is possible to narrow down five specific outcomes of this type of learning. From this point‚ a web of connection begins to form between
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Liberal Education and the Students’ Personal Response Liberal Education teaches people to think critically. Its goal is to nurture the growth of human talent in order to prepare individuals for a fulfilling and meaningful life in a free society. The study of liberal education should heighten students’ awareness of the human and natural world they inhabit. It should make them more reflective about their beliefs and choices‚ more self-conscious of their presumptions‚ and more creative about the
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The structure of a liberal arts education has been around and for centuries in Europe and the Americas however there is still extreme confusion about what it really is and why anyone would find it beneficial. The term liberal arts originally was translated to mean something along the lines of “skills of the citizen elite” or “a gentlemen’s education”(Lind 54). The original core pieces of a liberal arts education included: classical languages; rhetoric and logic; general education; a focus on the humanities;
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Liberal arts education is unique in the sense that learning is not geared to one specific vocation‚ but rather is based on broad learning. This ‘broad learning’ is made up of several diverse courses and can potentially be geared towards many different professions. For example‚ a curriculum may include courses from literature‚ languages and art to sociology‚ mathematics‚ statistics‚ biology‚ and even economics and political science! The authors of the article Defining Liberal Arts Education aim to
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purpose of education. Because of the extensiveness of education‚ settling on one form of an academic system has always been a challenge. People’s views of education are oftentimes based on their values‚ culture‚ religious beliefs‚ and environment. Thus‚ every person has their own definition and perception of education. Although views of education differ from person to person‚ there are certain aspects of academics which are valued by many. As depicted by Martha Nussbaum in “Education for Profit‚
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I believe the main merit of a liberal arts education is that it provides the flexibility needed in building a personally ideal education plan. Since we are all different individuals‚ it is natural for each of us to have completely different combinations of strong and weak points. Even if there were two students who would both like to major in Biology‚ one student may not be able to get their head around chemistry while the other student suffers in math. To educate a large group of students with the
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. With the Program in Liberal Medical Education‚ one must take full advantage of the opportunity to complete a liberal education. As such‚ there are many courses I would take that revolve around my scientific and medical interests‚ as well as liberal arts courses to develop my intellectual and creative capacity. I am fascinated by the complexities and fragilities of the human body‚ and at how one change in a gene or a lack of a hormone can cause potentially fatal effects. Therefore‚ I could take
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